Timid bank clerk Henry “Dutch” Holland (Alec Guinness) hatches the perfect plan for a gold bullion robbery. Only a method for disposing of the gold evades him. Then he meets Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), who owns a foundry that creates metal souvenir trinkets… Packed with eccentric character players, and featuring Audrey Hepburn’s film debut, this early example of the “heist caper”, won an Oscar for screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke - who had started out writing a gritty realist crime drama!