Tonight's Movie: Payroll (1961) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

PAYROLL (1961) is a very good new-to-me heist film which is part of the Brit Noir Collection III from Kino Lorber.Johnny Mellors (Michael Craig) and his gang of three other men (Tom Bell, Barry Keegan, and Kenneth Griffith) plot with Dennis Pearson (William Lucas) to steal the payroll from the factory where Pearson has an office job.The factory has just started using a special armored truck to transfer the money from the bank to the company, but that doesn't stop Johnny, who engineers a brutal plan to wreck the truck and access the money.During the robbery, driver Harry Parker (William Peacock) is killed and his colleage Frank (Glyn Houston) is seriously injured.Though the police are on the job, Harry's widow Jackie (Billie Whitelaw) sets aside mourning and caring for her two young children to pursue the case herself, including attempting to rattle suspect Pearson with anonymous letters. It works.Meanwhile, Pearson's disdainful wife Katie (Francois Prevost) -- conjuring memories of…

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