Calculated Risk (film)

Calculated Risk is a 1963 British crime thriller film directed by Norman Harrison and starring William Lucas, John Rutland and Dilys Watling.

Desperate to end his life of poverty, Kip alone stays to retrieve the sacks of money; but his efforts to lift the beam from Steve bring on a fatal heart attack.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Ever since Rififi (1955), the theme of the intricate, detailed planning of a robbery, and its daring execution, has been done to death on every level of production.

This second feature uses the same hackneyed idea, but manages to rise above routine through convincing characterisation, deft treatment, good acting, and realistic incidentals.

The story isn't a bad one about a gang that comes across an unerploded Second World War bomb while turneiling into a vault – but Norman Harrison directs with no sense of suspense.