Robbery Under Arms (1957 film)
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| Directed by | Jack Lee |
| Produced by | Joseph Janni |
| Written by | Alexander Baron W. P. Lipscomb |
| Based on | novel by Rolf Boldrewood |
| Starring |
Peter Finch Ronald Lewis |
| Music by | Mátyás Seiber |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | Manuel Del Campo |
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3 October 1957 (World Premiere, London) |
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104 minutes |
| Language | English |
Robbery Under Arms is a 1957 British crime film directed by Jack Lee and starring Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith and Jill Ireland. It is based on the Australian novel Robbery Under Arms by Thomas Alexander Browne who wrote under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood.
In 1865 Australia, the two Marston brothers, bold Dick and sensitive Jim, are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, the famous cattle thief Captain Starlight. They help take some cattle their father and Starlight have stolen across the country to Adelaide, where they are sold with Starlight impersonating an English gentleman claiming to own the rustled herd.
The two brothers take their share of the money and go to Melbourne. On board ship they meet the Morrison sisters, greedy Kate and nice Jean, who are romanced by Dick and Jim respectively. They read that Starlight has been arrested, and return home, where they and their father narrowly escape arrest.
The brothers are then reunited with Starlight, who has left prison, and join him and some other men in robbing a coach, in which a trooper is shot and killed. Dick and Jim go to the gold fields to make enough money to escape to America. There they are reunited with Kate, who is married but is still interested in Dick, and Jean, who Jim marries.
Just as the brothers are about to leave to start a new life, Captain Starlight and his gang (including Ben Marston) arrive to rob the local bank. During the robbery several people are killed by Starlight's gang (although not by Starlight), including a mother protecting child. Jim Marston is captured by locals and is about to be lynched but rescued by a trooper who comes to arrest him. Dick rescues Jim from the trooper. but is killed in the attempt.
Jim hides out with Starlight and his father but misses his wife too much and goes back to see her. Starlight and Ben Marston are killed in a shoot out with police. Jim Marston is arrested.
Ewen Solon - Sergeant Arthur
Ealing Studios had planned to make the movie after The Overlanders (1946) and (1949), and they hired William Lipscomb to do the script.Gregory Peck at one stage was announced as a possible star.
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