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Release Date: 1961

Cast: Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw

Categories: Movies, Crime Drama, Crime, Crime Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Drama Film

Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig, and based on the novel by Derek Bickerton. The story is about a gang of villains that stage a wages robbery, which turns into a disaster. Most of the film was shot on location in and around Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne. In the US, the film is known as I Promised to Pay. When van driver Harry Parker is killed during a heist on a payroll van, his widow Jackie (Billie Whitelaw), takes revenge on the members of gang responsible. She begins by posting threatening letters to the gang's inside-man, Dennis Pearson William Lucas... MORE

Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig, and based on the novel by Derek Bickerton. The story is about a gang of villains that stage a wages robbery, which turns into a disaster. Most of the film was shot on location in and around Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne. In the US, the film is known as I Promised to Pay. When van driver Harry Parker is killed during a heist on a payroll van, his widow Jackie (Billie Whitelaw), takes revenge on the members of gang responsible. She begins by posting threatening letters to the gang's inside-man, Dennis Pearson William Lucas who is married to Katie Pearson (Françoise Prévost). Pearson' aim is to get her hands on the proceeds of the robbery and so she getting in with Johnny Mellors (Michael Craig) to get herself a bigger slice. With the police closing in the gang begins to turn on itself. Jackie Parker then has her final denouement on a boat with Mellors. LESS