South Atlantic Raiders
South Atlantic Raiders is a twopart 1990 comedy film made for British television as part of The Comic Strip Presents... series and was originally broadcast on BBC 2. It is a satire of the Falklands War.
After his attempts to report his concerns to the police are rebuffed, he and his militaryobsessed best friend Billy Edmondson decide to rescue her themselves, and hatch a plot to rob a bank that is on their route to finance their expedition. They break into the house of the manager, Max Coltrane, an alcoholic with a crumbling marriage, and hold his wife Mary Burke hostage until he opens the vault and gives them the money unfortunately, the bank vault has a time lock, meaning it cannot be opened until the next morning and forcing the two wouldbe robbers to stay overnight. As a consequence, they strike up a friendship with Max, try to help him bond with his wife by cooking them dinner, and thwart the attempts of Rollo Richardson, a smoothtalking burglar, to steal from him.Rollo is persuaded to join the bank heist and Max, having been fired from his job and with nothing left to lose, throws his lot in with the robbers as well. The robbery goes well, but their attempt to purchase a jet from British Aerospace to get to the Falklands ends with everyone except Stan arrested and sent to Dartmoor. Resolving to get them out, Stan learns from the widow of an exconvict that there is an unused tunnel dug as part of a failed escape attempt that has never been discovered leading from Cell 109b to the outside world. ........
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