The Big Chance is a 1957 black and white British second feature ('B')[2] drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Adrienne Corri, William Russell, and Ian Colin.

This has conveniently coincided with him having access to his employer's safe which is storage for all the foreign currency used to supply customers leaving the country.

He stays late on a Friday night after everybody else has left and, after emptying the safe of the currency, he heads to the airport for his flight to Panama.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Unpretentious and well-played, this slight crime-adventure has one or two effective scenes – notably the one at the airport – but fails to maintain any consistent pitch of excitement.

"[6] Picturegoer called the film a "bright little suspense drama", adding: "The Corri part is just a cliché, but, incredibly, she makes the character grow: with complete conviction, the melting romantic is revealed as a hard-faced schemer.