Main Cast: Tommy Steele, Stanley Baker, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster
Release Year: 1969
Country: UK
Run Time: 119 minutes
Plot
Jack Sheppard (Tommy Steele) is the locksmith's apprentice who is forced into highway robbery when he is betrayed by Jonathan Wild (Stanley Baker). Jack runs for his life and takes to a life of crime. He is captured but breaks out of jail, quickly becoming the subject of lore, legend and song. The arrogant and popular Jack ends up heading for the gallows after taunting the King, the Lord Chancellor and a harridan aristocratic dowager. Wild tries to track down the elusive robber and collect on the reward like he has done so many times before in this dramatic adventure biography. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Noel Purcell - Leatherchest; William Marlowe - Tom Sheppard; Sue Lloyd - Lady Darlington; Harold Kasket - The King; Cardew Robinson - Lord Mayor; Esmond Knight - Ballad Singer; Eddie Byrne - Reverend Wagstaff; John Hallam - The Captian; Jack Woolgar - Mr. Woods; George Woodbridge - The Hangman; Michael Elphick - Hogarth; Howard Goorney - Surgeon; Roy Evans - Mr. Hind; Leon Lissek - Deeley; Skip Martin - Dwarf; Caroline Munro - Mme. Vendonne; Ivan Dixon - Naval Officer; Michael Douglas; Fred Johnson - Merchant; Dafydd Havard - Clerk; Liam Sweeney - Austin; Carolyn Montagu - Mistress Barrow; Carla Challoner - Emma; Danny Cummins - Barker; Vernon Hayden - Deputy Marshal; Clare Mullen - Dwarf's Girlfriend; Cecil Nash - Storyteller; Terry Plummer - Constable; John Kelly - Proprietor; John Morley - Judge
Credit
Malcolm Goddard - Choreography, Alan Dent - Consultant/advisor, Cynthia Tingey - Costume Designer, James Clavell - Director, Peter Thornton - Editor, Elmer Bernstein - Composer (Music Score), Don Black - Composer (Music Score), Wally Schneiderman - Makeup, Jill Carpenter - Makeup, Cedric Dawe - Production Designer, John Wilcox - Cinematographer, Stanley Baker - Producer, James Clavell - Producer, Michael Deeley - Producer, David Newhouse - Screenwriter, Rafe Newhouse - Screenwriter
The film was produced by Stanley Baker through his company Oakhurst Productions, and starred Baker himself as Jonathan Wild. Tommy Steele played Jack Sheppard.
