Payroll

Name: Payroll
Director: Sidney Hayers
Released: 1961
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith

1961 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 990 VOTES · DIR. Sidney Hayers

Overview

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,154 lines

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00:00:23 TAPE RECORDER VOICE: Help! Bandits! Help!

00:05:39 What d'you want to meet in a place like this for?

00:08:23 Er... you're imagining things. - My foreign blood again, I suppose.

00:10:38 Well, you'd better - because all the rest of it is a waste of breath.

00:14:17 Hmm.

00:20:09 Gawd, 'e's movin', isn't he? Eh?

00:22:57 What sort of deal do you have with Dennis?

00:26:17 ...and when the armoured van comes to pass, I shall drive straight at him from here

00:29:55 My dear old mother takes more risks when she hangs out the washing!

00:36:30 TAPE RECORDER VOICE: Help! Bandits! Help!

00:43:26 Why don't you go home, get some rest. We'll see you tomorrow.

00:47:40 It was agreed you get twice as much as we do but you don't get twice as much of Bert's share!

00:50:10 And put a special watch on diversions.

00:54:15 ...but until yesterday, you'd never missed a day off work.

00:56:50 Only a few days and already it's burning a hole in your pocket.

00:59:44 JOHNNY: You're going to get it whether you like it or not.

01:06:40 Who's that? - KATIE OVER TELEPHONE: Katie Pearson.

01:10:48 Oh, look who's slinging his lolly about like that!

01:15:13 Do you know why I haven't used it yet?

01:18:29 His landlady said he'd been out all night. - What did you say?

01:22:27 Did you find anything? - No, nothing. Only this letter.

01:25:30 To get rid of him.

01:31:07 Are you sure you want to go through with this?

01:38:34 Damn. We're out of water. - I'll get some.

Cast & Characters

Michael Craig Johnny Mellors Françoise Prévost Katie Pearson Billie Whitelaw Jackie Parker William Lucas Dennis Pearson Kenneth Griffith Monty Tom Bell Blackie Barry Keegan Bert Langridge Edward Cast Detective Sergeant Bradden Andrew Faulds Detective Inspector Carberry William Dexter Harry Parker

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,154

Dialogue density11.0 lines / min

First line00:00:23

Final line01:38:34

Production Record

DirectorSidney Hayers

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes990