Reply With QuoteSounds very much like it could be The Squeeze with Stacy Keach
Vague memories of an early 1980's film about a bank robbery. Think basic premise is that the Bank managers wife and attractive young daughter are held hostage at their home in order to force the manager to co-operate. Anyway remember that the young girl falls for the young villain holding her captive.......and he is ultimately shot. Think the guy married to Lysette Anthony in the BBC comedy Three Up Two Down might have played the young villain. Any ideas??
Sounds very much like it could be The Squeeze with Stacy Keach
name='RobG']Sounds very much like it could be The Squeeze with Stacy Keach
It could be.
Did Carol White do a striptease?
name='trelawnee']It could be.
Did Carol White do a striptease?
Yes she did and very fine film too.
The similarites are that it was the wife and daughter of a man who owns a security firm (played by Edward Fox) who are kidnapped. The wife (Carol White) ends up sleeping with one of the captors (David Hemmings) who is indeed shot during the heist and he falls backwards through a shop window. The film is late 70s but could quite easily be mistaken for an early 80s film.
The guy in Three Up Two Down with Michael Elphick was Ray Burdis .... he is not in The Squeeze but the actor Stewart Harwood (who looks like Ray) is. Stewart was in The Odd Job with Michael Elphick so you may have mixed them up.
Ray Burdis is also in an episode of "THE PROFESSTIONALS" called "WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY" which was made in 1980. He plays a gang member who holds a family hostage after a bank hold-up. He makes advances to one of the female hostages but is rebuffed. He also gets shot. Could be you have all these storys mixed up in your subconscious.
name='Hackett']Ray Burdis is also in an episode of "THE PROFESSTIONALS" called "WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY" which was made in 1980. He plays a gang member who holds a family hostage after a bank hold-up. He makes advances to one of the female hostages but is rebuffed. He also gets shot. Could be you have all these storys mixed up in your subconscious.
This sounds much more likely to be the right one
Finally found out the title of this film "Give us Tomorrow" (1978). Anyone help me with a copy , lots to trade.
A superb and underrated 'suburban home invasion' film from the great Donovan Winter, filmed just down the road from me (until I move next week anyway) in Orpington, on the borders of Kent and SAAAARF EAST LAANDAHN!!. I recently penned liner notes for Nucleus Films' DVD releases of ESCORT GIRLS, THE DEADLY FEMALES and SOME LIKE IT SEXY, but sadly, the only two we were unable to get the rights to were GIVE US TOMORROW and THE TRUNK, as Winter sold them on ages ago. This small hitch still didn't stop him suggesting to our venerable founder Marc Morris that he "just go ahead and put 'em out anyway", but, needless to say, we'd never entertain such an idea. Well, Marc wouldn't...
I have a copy on DVDR, but have no recording equipment at the mo. However, if you PM me I'll send you details of people who might be able to help.
The girl in question is stunningly beautiful, and I seem to remember she was wearing a Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' sweatshirt- well, it was 1978!! Neither she nor the young bloke you mistook for Ray Burdis appear to have had much of an acting career afterwards, but leads Derren Nesbitt, Sylvia Syms and James Kerry all turn in sterling performances. Of all Winter's movies, this is the one that makes the most sense, and with the right distribution (it only snuck out as support to Pete Walker's THE COMEBACK, although that's still one of the best double bills I can imagine seeing!!) could have been better remembered as his one shot at making a serious, credible movie - it's just a shame he's never made another one since, and, at the age of 81, is now unlikely to.
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