The League of Gentlemen

Name: The League of Gentlemen
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1960-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.064

About The League of Gentlemen

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field.

The League of Gentlemen is a 1960 comedy crime film directed by Basil Dearden. Released in April 1960, it runs 116 minutes.

The film is filed under war veteran, bank robber, gang of thieves, and black and white.

Jack Hawkins takes the lead as Hyde, Nigel Patrick as Race, Roger Livesey as Mycroft, and Richard Attenborough as Lexy. The screenplay is by Bryan Forbes. American members can watch it on Criterion Channel.

Bonnie and Clyde, The Killing, and Lift make useful companions to The League of Gentlemen, all filed under heist. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 110 votes and it carries a NR rating.