''The Gelignite Gang'' is a black and white 1956 British

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film directed by

Terence Fisher Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, ...

and Francis Searle, starring

Wayne Morris Wayne Morris (born Bert DeWayne Morris Jr. February 17, 1914 – September 14, 1959) was an American film and television actor, as well as a decorated World War II fighter ace. He appeared in many films, including ''Paths of Glory'' (1957), '' ...

and

Sandra Dorne Sandra Dorne (born Joan Smith; 19 June 1924 – 25 December 1992) was a British actress. Career Also known as Sandra Holt, Dorne was often known in the 1950s as the B-film Diana Dors. As a platinum blonde, she was a regular female lead ...

. The film was released in the U.S. as ''The Dynamiters''.

Plot

American insurance investigator Jimmy Baxter works for the Anglo American Investigation Company in England. He searches for a gang of jewel robbers who use

gelignite Gelignite (), also known as blasting gelatin or simply "jelly", is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and salt ...

as part of their modus operandi. He goes to The Green Dragon Club to interview its owner Mr Popoulos. After he leaves the head waiter Bergman calls him from a phone box but is shot dead by an unseen assailant before he can say much. Baxter is more successful than his boss at chatting up the office secretary, Sally, and asks her to dinner at the Green Dragon Club. Sally does some sleuthing on her own and finds valuable clues. Baxter tracks the gang to its lair, but then Sally is kidnapped by Mr. G, the gang's secret mastermind and tied up in a warehouse. Initially the old pawnbroker appears to be the mastermind. The gang are tracked to his pawn shop and when they fail to shoot their way out they set fire to the building. Ultimately Mr G appears to be Rutherford, the boss of Anglo American.

Cast

as Jimmy Baxter * James Kenney as Chris Chapman *

Patrick Holt Patrick Holt (31 January 1912 – 12 October 1993) was an English film and television actor. Biography Born Patrick G. Parsons in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Holt spent some of his childhood in India with his uncle, after which he was sen ...

as John Rutherford *

as Sally Morton *

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as Simone *

Eric Pohlmann Eric Pohlmann (german: Erich Pohlmann; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, th ...

as Mr. Popoulus *

Lloyd Lamble Lloyd Nelson Lamble (8 February 1914 – 17 March 2008) was an Australian actor who worked in theatre, television, radio and film. He lived and worked for most of his life in the United Kingdom. Biography Personal life Lloyd Lamble was born in M ...

as Detective-Inspector Felby * Arthur Young as Pop Scobie * Tony Doonan as Jagar *

Hugh Miller Hugh Miller (10 October 1802 – 23/24 December 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian. Life and work Miller was born in Cromarty, the first of three children of Harriet Wright ('' ...

as Mr. Crosby * Mark Daly as 1st Watchman * Monti De Lyle as Barton, 'Bergman' * Bernadette Milnes as Kay Mallen * Bertha Russell as Mrs Chapman * Ossie Morris as 2nd watchman * Leigh Crutchley as Hopman * Herbert St John as Mr. Woodgate

References

External links

* British crime films British heist films 1956 films 1950s gang films Films directed by Terence Fisher Films directed by Francis Searle Films shot in London Films set in London 1950s English-language films 1950s British films 1956 crime films British black-and-white films English-language crime films {{1950s-crime-film-stub