The Professionals

The Professionals is a 1960 British crime thriller, directed by Don Sharp. It screened on US television the following year as part of the Kraft Mystery Theatre series. It was one of a series of films Anglo-Amalgamated sold to US television for one million dollars. Premise A gang of criminals, Joe Lawson, Vince Clayton and Eddie Holden, rob a suburban bank. Lawson then wants to rob a city bank and enlists the services of safe cracker Philip Bowman, who is just out of prison and is about to marry his girlfriend, Ruth. The thieves manage to rob the bank but Inspector Rankin interrogates Holden about the earlier robbery. Holden confesses and the police arrest the gang just as Bowman marries Ruth. Cast William Lucas as Philip Bowman Andrew Faulds as Inspector Rankin Colette Wilde as Ruth Stratford Johns as Lawson Vilma Ann Leslie as Mabel Edward Cast as Clayton Charles Vance as Eddie Holden Jack May as Edwards Eric Corrie as Detective Arthur Skinner as Plainclothes Man Douglas Muir as Beaumont David Williams as Constable Arthur Hewlett as Hoskins Patrick Boxill as Renagan Stuart Hillier as Condor Raymond Ray as Night Watchman Noel Coleman as Chief Inspector