The Big Job (film)

The Big Job is a British comedy film which was released in 1965. It stars Sid James, Dick Emery, Joan Sims, Sylvia Syms, Jim Dale and Lance Percival.

England, 1950. A gang of robbers led by the selfproclaimed George The Great Brain Sid James rob a bank, stealing 50,000. However, due to a mixup, they are pursued and caught by the police. He manages to stash away the money in the trunk of a hollow tree, before he is collared. The gang are then sentenced to serve fifteen years in Wormwood Scrubs prison.Upon their release in 1965, the gang go back to the spot where they had left the money, only to find it is now a new town, and a housing estate has been built around the tree. To their chagrin they find that the tree is now in the grounds of the local police station, invitingly close to the wall. George and his gang take up rooms in a nearby house rented by a widow and her daughter. In order to provide a respectable front, George is forced to marry his longtime girlfriend Myrtle Robbins Sylvia Syms who is not so enamoured about the idea of recovering the loot, and wants George to settle down with her. ........

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