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 job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Jack Hawkins
Nigel Patrick
Roger Livesey
Richard Attenborough
Bryan Forbes
Kieron Moore
Terence Alexander
Norman Bird
Robert Coote
Melissa Stribling
Nanette Newman
Lydia Sherwood
Doris Hare
David Lodge
Patrick Wymark