"Two deadly weapons. Burning lips! ... Hot lead! ..."
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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The people behind it
Laurence Harvey
Miles 'Rave' Ravenscourt
Richard Basehart
Joe Halsey
Joan Collins
Mary Halsey
Gloria Grahame
Denise Blaine
John Ireland
Eddie Blaine
Rène Ray
Angela Morgan
Stanley Baker
Mike Morgan
Margaret Leighton
Eve Ravenscourt
Robert Morley
Sir Francis Ravenscourt
Freda Jackson
Mrs. Freeman
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