"Simply try for one hour to behave like gentlemen."
Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness) rents a room from a kindly little old lady, for the purposes of robbing a wages van. The gang pose as a string quartet, despite looking like what they are, a bunch of rogues (Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, and Danny Green). Inevitably things start to go wrong the minute they lift the money, with infighting proving to be their downfall.
Another sublime lesson in how to produce a comedy. All elements, from acting, to script and direction, work together, meshing into a fine comedy.
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