Payroll

Payroll (1961)

Brilliant... Brutal... Torn from tonight's headlines!

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

Date of release
1961-01-19
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (34)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Sidney Hayers

Casting

Interesting facts

Payroll is a 1961 British neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, and Billie Whitelaw. The screenplay by George Baxt was adapted from Derek Bickerton's 1959 novel of the same name. The film revolves around a group of criminals who plan and execute a wages robbery, which ultimately ends in disaster. The movie is one of the most highly regarded crime films from Anglo-Amalgamated.

Production

The film's working title was I Promised to Pay, and in some territories it remained the film's distribution title. Much of the film was shot on location in and around Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne. Other scenes were shot in Tynemouth, Rugby and Southwold; after location work was complete, the film began studio shooting at Beaconsfield Studios on 10 October 1960.

Michael Craig was loaned from Rank. Of Hayers he said: "I think he'd learned 'directing' from a manual".

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