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gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Everywhere you looked during the early 1960s, there was a comic criminal mastermind planning an audacious raid that was doomed to failure because his gang were paid-up members of Dolts
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British studios seem to produce with unfailing regularity roughly once a year. The jokes are occasionally mildly funny, but usually very familiar. Anton Rodgers plays (rather
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Upon finishing a prison sentence, a trio of crooks go in search of their one-time leader, known as "The Duke", who was supposed to safeguard their share of the money which was never recovered. However, the Duke's girlfriend Sara tells them the Duke is dead and the money is long gone. Later, the gang
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