The League of Gentlemen (film)

The League of Gentlemen is a 1960 British crime drama directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, and Richard Attenborough. It is based on the 1958 novel by John Boland.

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

The film introduced a lot of the tropes now common to The Caper and the Impossible Mission.

Not to be confused with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Tropes used in The League of Gentlemen (film) include:
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