The Counterfeit Plan
- 1 January 1957 (1957-01-01)
The Counterfeit Plan is a 1957 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Zachary Scott and Peggie Castle.[1]
Plot summary
A gang of criminals, led by sociopath Max Brant, escape from France and set up a counterfeit operation to make British £5 and American $20 notes in the cellar of a large English country house now owned by Louie Bernard. Brant forces Bernard, who worked for the British Government during WW2 making foreign counterfeit currency, to make the master die plates by holding his daughter, Carole an artist, as a hostage. When Bernard finds out that Brant has tried to rape his daughter and has killed his housekeeper, Gerta, because she witnessed the attempted rape, he anonymously posts one of the forged £5 notes to the police with a letter describing the counterfeit operation. When Brant is told about this by Duke, he confronts Bernard. Meanwhile, the police slowly close in on the gang's headquarters.
The film features professional snooker world champion Horace Lindrum in a cameo appearance playing himself. This is used as cover for one of the meetings with other criminals to discuss the sale of the forged British £5 notes to them. Another similar meeting is camouflaged as a boxing match.
Cast
- Zachary Scott as Max Brant
- Peggie Castle as Carole Bernard
- Mervyn Johns as Louie Bernard
- Sydney Tafler as Harry Flint
- Lee Patterson as Duke
- Eric Pohlmann as Frank Wandelman
- Robert Arden as Bob Fenton
- Chili Bouchier as Gerta
- John Welsh as Police Inspector Grant
- Aubrey Dexter as Joe Lepton
- David Lodge as Sam Watson
Production
The film was the first of three between Amalgamated Productions and Anglo-Amalgamated. It was very popular in the UK.[2]
References
External links
- The Counterfeit Plan at IMDb
- The Counterfeit Plan at AllMovie
- The Counterfeit Plan at the TCM Movie Database
- The Counterfeit Plan at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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