The Cracksman

The Cracksman is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Peter Graham Scott.[1][2][3]

The Cracksman
Directed byPeter Graham Scott
Produced byW. A. Whittaker
StarringCharlie Drake
Nyree Dawn Porter
George Sanders
Dennis Price
Music byRon Goodwin
CinematographyHarry Waxman
Edited byRichard Best
Production
company
Distributed byWarner-Pathé Distributors
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Charlie Drake plays honest but naive locksmith Ernest Wright who believes that everybody else is equally honest. First, he is duped by a debonair con man into opening a car. He is caught by the police but given probation. Next, the same man fools him into breaking into a house, and again he is caught while the villain escapes and he lands in jail. When he is released, he again gets tricked, this time by a woman, into opening a safe, for which he receives a three-year jail sentence. On arrival in prison, he has a reputation as a master thief. Upon his release, he finds himself as a pawn being manipulated by two gangs into a safe-cracking scheme but, with the help of undercover police woman Muriel, he helps trap the crooks and clear his name.

Portions of the film satirise the 1962 films Birdman of Alcatraz and Dr. No, Drake's hit song My Boomerang Won't Come Back, and the Ceremony of the Keys at the Tower of London.

Cast

Additional credits
  • Delia Derbyshire created the sound for the "In a Monastery Garden" sequence. The instrument is, in her words, "an E♭ safe-unlocking mechanism".

References
  1. The New York Times
  2. Variety
  3. Personal letter from Delia Derbyshire to Associated British Picture Corporation, dated 25 April 1963.


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