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'''''The League of Gentlemen''''' is a 1960 British crime drama directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, and Richard Attenborough. It is based on the 1958 novel by John Boland.
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
The film [[Trope Maker|introduced]] a lot of the tropes now common to [[The Caper]] and the [[Impossible Mission]].
Not to be confused with ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|The League of '''Extraordinary''' Gentlemen]]''.
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