The League of Gentlemen (1960)

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   landencelano

   Incredible heist film. Dearden makes great use of pure cinema to unfold the story. Quite remarkable. 13 years 1 month ago
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   Siskoid

   The twist in The League of Gentlemen is that it's a heist movie where the robbery is planned and perpetrated by dishonorably discharged servicemen with military precision. It's a real cracker, Basil Dearden bringing his own clockwork precision to the story, efficiently differentiating his post-war Dirty Dozen (well, not quite a dozen) and making us care whether they pull it off and get away with it. The dialog is very witty, and in terms of Dearden's interest in social studies (so to speak), one of the group was cashiered for being gay. Amazingly, it's presented as a fact, we even see him with his partner, but it's never made an issue, nor are those two characters ever played as any kind of caricature (I wonder if the extremely mannered day players who crash one secret meeting at one point are meant to act as contrast). It's a small thing, but in 1960, seems evolved as heck. A lot of tension and humanity, humor even (I love the raid on the military base to get equipment), and no matter how well you plan a heist, things HAVE to go wrong eventually, which is all executed quite well. 3 years 11 months ago
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   monty

   Look out for Oliver Reed as a chorus boy. 11 years 9 months ago

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