| Director | Peter Hall |
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Mr. Graham, a deputy under manager in a bank in the West End of London, is dissatisfied with his boring life. He meets Lady Britt Dorset, a spendthrift aristocrat and recruits her and her husband, Lord Nicholas Dorset, to help him carry out his plan to steal £300,000 from the bank. Graham also starts an affair with Lady Dorset.
The plan is to be enacted on a day that the manager absents himself to indulge his passion for golf. With Graham's assistance, Lord Dorset is to pose as a bank inspector there to check the bank's emergency cash reserve, and will substitute counterfeit money for the real money which he will place in Britt's deposit box which she has there as a customer; she will collect the money shortly afterwards, and then they will all take a flight to Switzerland.
Lady Dorset agrees with Graham that they will take a different flight and leave Lord Dorset with nothing, but she also agrees a similar plot with Dorset to cut out Graham.
At the first opportunity, the scheme has to be abandoned when a real bank inspector arrives. When they are able to carry it out, all goes to plan, but Lady Dorset absconds alone with the cash. Graham and Lord Dorset realize that she has double-crossed both of them. They decide to carry out the same plan to rob the bank again the following year.