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The League Of Gentlemen was a 1959 British crime film, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins and Nigel Patrick with Terence Alexander, Richard Attenborough, Norman Bird, Bryan Forbes, Roger Livesey and Kieron Moore. It was based on the 1958 novel by John Boland and was adapted by Bryan Forbes. The film was made through Allied Film Makers in just two months and was distributed by the Rank Organisation, premiering in 1960.

The basis of the plot is a group of ex-Army officers rob a bank with a very military and effective plan. It was one of the first English films to have all the elements of the successful 1950s U.S. heist films, although with a distinctly English tinge.

The film was the most successful British film of 1960.

This film is not to be confused with the BBC television series of the same name. Neither should it be confused with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a comic book, upon which the film of the same name was based.

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