Strongroom is a 1962 British 'B'[2] crime drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon and Ann Lynn.

Len tries to retrieve his dead brother's belongings from the coroner's assistant but gets angry when told that the items, which include the strongroom keys, cannot be returned until the police give permission to do so.

The duo decide to get hold of an oxyacetylene torch and try their best to break through to the suffocating bank workers (Griff having persuaded Len that, by not doing so, they're essentially putting their own necks on the block).

In the meantime, having been contacted by the coroner's assistant, the police sergeant spots that the dead brother's belongings include a strongroom key, something a car-breaker shouldn't possess.

The duo get an air line through the door but their relief is shattered when, though the vault is opened and the bank manager taken out (barely alive), a police officer states "This one (Rose) is DEAD sir!"

"[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: Allowing that the plot is improbably "loaded" and coincidental, this sharp, brisk thriller is a soundly entertaining job of minor film-making.

With the same director, Vernon Sewell, and young players, Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner, it works up as credible a suspense as that other commendable second feature, The Man In The Back Seat [1961].