The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
as Detective Inspector Jack Regan
as Detective Sergeant George Carter
as ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Jupp
as Detective Chief Inspector Dilke
as Hill
as Mrs Hill
as Llewellyn
as Switchboard Girl
as Haughton
as Jellyneck
as Big John
as Tom Daniels
as McKyle
as Logan
as Harry
as Gloria's Father
as White
as Doctor
as Mrs Haughton
as Major Conway
as Goran
as Shirley Hicks
as Soames
as Mrs White
as Mead
as Mrs Mead
as Doyle
as Doyle
as Pete Beale
as Colly
as Bank Manager
as Jefferson
as Barman
as Cardona Alexandros
as Air Hostess
as Girl
as Nino
as Willard
as PC
as Accident Victim (uncredited)