Rent Cash on Demand (1961)
3.7 of 5 from 68 ratings
1h 20min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A ruthless crook apparently abducts the wife and child of a bank manager and then masquerades as an insurance company detective while scheming to rob the institution in this crime drama. Unfortunately, some of the manager's employees learn about the plot and the terrified manager must beg them to remain silent. Fortunately, the police have been on the case all along.
- Actors:
- Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird, Kevin Stoney, Barry Lowe, Edith Sharpe, Lois Daine, Alan Haywood, Charles Morgan, Fred Stone
- Directors:
- Quentin Lawrence
- Producers:
- Michael Carreras
- Voiced By:
- Vera Cook, Gareth Tandy
- Writers:
- David T. Chantler, Lewis Greifer, Jacques Gillies
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Heist Movies: A 20-Year Stretch, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Winter and Snow Films, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/02/2018
- Run Time:
- 81 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Alternative UK theatrical cut (67 mins)
- Audio commentary with film historians Jonathan Rigby and David Miller
- The Perfect Crime: Inside 'Cash On Demand' (2018, 19 mins): an analysis of the film and its production by Hammer expert Jonathan Rigby, BFI curator Josephine Botting and cultural historian John J. Johnston
- Hammer's Women: Lois Daine (2018, 10 mins): critic and author Becky Booth on the popular English film and television actress
- Lois Daine on 'Cash on Demand' (2018, 8 mins): new and exclusive interview
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Image Galleries: press and promotional material
- World premiere on Blu-ray
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Reviews (2) of Cash on Demand
Christmas Eve, Close of Business - Cash on Demand review by griggs
There’s something very satisfying about a thriller that never leaves the office. Cash on Demand plays like Rope spliced with a dry run for The Silent Partner: one set, one bank, one increasingly fraught Christmas Eve morning as a routine visit turns into something far sharper and stranger. Hammer puts away the fangs for this one and goes full suspense, and it suits them.
Peter Cushing starts in full Grand Moff Tarkin mode as the frosty branch manager, all rules, routines and quiet contempt for the people under him. As André Morell’s “insurance inspector” turns up the pressure, you see the façade crack, then buckle, and the film edges towards a ghost-free Christmas Carol. It’s tight, taut and wonderfully claustrophobic: stark black-and-white, a drab bank, every pause and signature turning the screw another notch.
It’s undeniably stagey, but also brisk and efficient – in and out before most modern thrillers have finished their prologue. No car chases, no gunfights, just two men in suits testing each other’s nerve. On a cold, wet December day, this kind of lean, wintry chamber piece is exactly the sort of thing I’m delighted to stumble across.
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Bank On This One. - Cash on Demand review by NC
'Cash On Demand' is a smashing little heist film, a vault full of script and acting riches. Cushing plays against type as a self-important, nitpicking bank manager, overlooking his own faults all the more to find them in others. Morell is excellent as a suave thief whose meticulous plans to empty the bank take up most of the film's running time. Even better is the ever-reliable Richard Vernon, a humble chief- clerk, seething with indignation at his treatment by Cushing.
Set almost entirely within the bank, it has a theatrical, claustrophobic feel, enhanced by tension, not just of the robbery, but between characters.
Holes start appearing if you think about it too much, but that doesn't stop it being a very enjoyable way to pass the time.
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