Robbery is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates and starring Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet and James Booth.

Using the money from this job, crime boss Paul Clifton builds up a team to hit a Royal Mail train coming south from Glasgow.

A meticulous plan is put in place, but there are obstacles: Jack, the driver of the getaway car in the jewellery theft, is identified in an identity parade and arrested but refuses to name accomplices to police; gang member Robinson must be broken out of prison; and Inspector George Langdon is hot on the trail of the jewel robbers and finds out through informers about plans for an even bigger heist.

In the morning, Langdon and the police investigate the crime scene and explore possible local hideouts, including a disused airbase in which the robbers are hiding in the basement, but are not found.

He and director Peter Yates offered the project to Woodfall Film Productions, where Deeley worked, but the company did not want to make it.

[1] To avoid legal problems, it was decided to write a script in which the details in the 25-minute robbery sequence were taken entirely from court evidence, but the remainder of the film would be fictitious speculation.

Shots of the gang meeting up prior to the robbery were filmed at Leyton Orient Football Club during a match with Swindon Town.

However, time and culture have not been kind to Yates' film, and it has, to a very large extent, been relegated to a footnote in British crime cinema".

"[17] Leslie Halliwell said: "Heavy-going fictionalised account of the famous train robbery of 1963; best seen as standard cops and robbers, with some good chase sequences".

[19] The film won the best original British screenplay award (for Edward Boyd, Peter Yates, and George Markstein) from the Writers Guild of Great Britain.

In August 2015, a remastered version was released on Kino Lorber Blu-ray and DVD, scanned at 2K and fully restored to its original aspect ratio, along with some special features.