The Safecracker

Mar 5, 1958

1h 36m

★ 5.8

The crook who became a commando

Overview

Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.

Genres

Crime

Drama

War

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios

Coronado Productions

The Safecracker Trailers

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Cast

Colley Dawson

Ray Milland

Bennet Carfield

Barry Jones

Irene

Jeanette Sterke

Morris

Victor Maddern

Major Adbury

Ernest Clark

Mrs. Dawson

Barbara Everest

Shafter

Bernard Fox

Inspector Frankham

Cyril Raymond

Angela

Melissa Stribling

Sergeant Harper

Percy Herbert

General Prior

Anthony Nicholls

Herbert Fenwright

David Horne

After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.

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