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Bellman and True (1987)
Directed by Richard Loncraine
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Overview
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he’d seen the last of the robbers. But now they’ve traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.
Length 122 minutes
Actors
Bernard Hill | Derek Newark | Richard Hope | Ken Bones | Frances Tomelty | Kieran O'Brien | John Kavanagh | Arthur Whybrow | Peter Howell | Jim Dowdall | Kate McEnery | Anne Carroll | Richard Strange | Peter Jonfield | Andrew Paul | Richard Walsh | Camilla Nash | Badi Uzzaman | William Sleigh | Stephen Churchett | Michael Bertenshaw | Alisa Bosschaert | Alan Downer | Greg Powell
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/07/2024 | TV | Broadcast | Other | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
I skipped THE FORGOTTEN TOYS in order to deal with dinner and picked back up at the tail end of that to catch this, my 6th movie of the marathon (technically the 8th film shown). This is overlong by a good fucking hour but it gets better and more grim as it goes along. By the end it had me hooked.
This feels ripe for a remake with some tightening down to cut the runtime to under two hours. At its heart, this feels like a classic British film noir married to a bleaker ‘70s era of British filmmaking that somehow mostly works. The elevator accident scene is brutal and bloody, and as with most crime movies, the bad stuff happens after they successfully pull off the heist. That getaway scene in the Jaguar is very WTF!
Great to see Bernard Hill outside of his role in THE LORD OF THE RINGS movies!
I’d easily give this 8 stars if it were tightened up a bit.
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