King of Thieves

King of Thieves (2018)

Timing: 1:48 (108 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2018-09-04

Country

United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, France

Production

StudioCanal, Working Title Films, StudioCanal, MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, Working Title Films

Genre

Crime, Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$11 517 629

Website

https://www.kingofthieves.co.uk/

Director

James Marsh

Actors

Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Charlie Cox, Paul Whitehouse, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone, Francesca Annis, Olivia Le Andersen, Anna Elijasz
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Michelle Wright, Amelia Granger, Ali Jaafar, Liza Chasin, Danny Perkins, Didier Lupfer

Operator

Danny Cohen

Composer

Benjamin Wallfisch

Artist

Audition

Nina Gold

Editing

Nick Moore, Jinx Godfrey
All team (45)

• The film is based on real events. In April 2015, a bank in central London was indeed robbed, and the robbers were pensioners and people of pre-retirement age. The robbery unfolded according to the scheme depicted in the film. The criminals stole valuables from safety deposit boxes worth between £14 and £25 million (the exact amount is unknown, as safety deposit box renters do not always disclose what they keep in the bank). However, the joy of the successful robbery was short-lived. Within a few weeks, all the criminals were apprehended – thanks to modern investigative methods and mistakes the robbers made during the robbery.
• Several months after the events depicted in the film, following an active press campaign that blamed the company for using long-outdated computers and security systems, Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company went bankrupt.
• At the end of the film, there is a shot of a young Ray Winstone (who played Danny Jones here) in Alan Clarke's crime drama "Scum" (1979).
• Ray Winstone played Danny Jones in this film, with whom he once went to school.
• At the beginning of the film, a short clip from Peter Collinson’s action film “The Italian Job” (1969), starring Michael Caine, was inserted. It shows Chinese gold being unloaded from a plane at Turin Airport. The shot of Caine at the end of the film is also borrowed from the 1969 action film.
• At one point, Danny Jones, played by Ray Winstone, is reading a book called “Computer Forensics for Dummies.” A book with that title was actually found during a search of Jones’s home.
• At the end of the film, a shot is shown of a young Ray Winstone (here he played Danny Jones) in Alan Clarke's crime drama "Scum" (1979).