The Counterfeit Plan is a 1957 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Zachary Scott and Peggie Castle.[1]

The Counterfeit Plan
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Montgomery Tully
Written by	James Eastwood
Produced by	Alec C. Snowden Richard Gordon
Starring	Zachary Scott Peggie Castle
Cinematography	Phil Grindrod
Edited by	Geoffrey Muller
Production company	Amalgamated Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros
Release date	1 January 1957 (1957-01-01)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot summary

A gang of criminals, led by sociopath Max Brandt (Zachary Scott), escape from France and set up a counterfeit operation to make British £5 and American $20 notes in the cellar of a large English country house now owned by Louie Bernard (Mervyn Johns). Brandt forces Bernard, who worked for the British Government during WW2 making foreign counterfeit currency, to make the master die plates by holding his daughter, Carole (Peggie Castle), an artist, as a hostage. When Bernard finds out that Brandt has tried to rape his daughter and has killed his housekeeper, Gerta (Chili Bouchier), because she witnessed the attempted rape, he anonymously posts one of the forged £5 notes to the police with a letter describing the counterfeit operation. When Brandt is told about this by Duke (Lee Patterson), he confronts Bernard. Meanwhile, the police slowly close in on the gang's headquarters.

The film features professional snooker world champion Horace Lindrum in a small role playing himself. This is used as cover for one of the meetings with other criminals to discuss the sale of the forged British £5 notes to them. Another similar meeting is camouflaged as a boxing match.

Cast

• Zachary Scott as Max Brant
• Peggie Castle as Carole Bernard
• Mervyn Johns as Louie Bernard
• Sydney Tafler as Harry Flint
• Lee Patterson as Duke
• Eric Pohlmann as Frank Wandelman
• Robert Arden as Bob Fenton
• Chili Bouchier as Gerta
• John Welsh as Police Inspector Grant
• Aubrey Dexter as Joe Lepton
• David Lodge as Sam Watson

Production

The film was the first of three between Amalgamated Productions and Anglo-Amalgamated. It was very popular in the UK.[2]

References

External links

• The Counterfeit Plan at IMDb
• The Counterfeit Plan at AllMovie
• The Counterfeit Plan at the TCM Movie Database
• The Counterfeit Plan at the American Film Institute Catalog

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