The Day They Robbed the Bank of England is a 1960 British crime film directed by John Guillermin and starring Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars and Peter O'Toole.

Norgate befriends Lieutenant Monte Fitch of the Guard and gains access to the bank's architectural plans by breaking into a museum.

Despite scepticism from Walsh, another revolutionary who is infatuated with Muldoon, Norgate uncovers an underground sewer running beneath the bank vaults.

Meanwhile, O'Shea announces that the Irish Home Rule Bill has been reintroduced in Parliament, and the heist must be halted to avoid jeopardising its passage.

Peter O'Toole, as the obtuse but sympathetic guardee, plays with predictable distinction, his performance being perhaps the closest the film comes to a character study.

"[8] Filmink said "There’s two spectacular performances: one from Albert Sharpe as a tunnel digger and the other from Peter O’Toole, full of youth and life as an idiotic upper class twit who gives Ray all this inside information, then begins to twig that he’s accidentally assisted a crime.