cult film freak: john rutland

Written by James M. Tate / 10/26/2025 / No comments / british neo noir , british new wave , caper , dilys watling , george martin , heist , john rutland , shay gorman , sixties , suspense , terence cooper , thriller , warren mitchell , william lucas

WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHRU7OaVKlLY96mUGH78mkarDQs6TTzgmdORuZrWAfTfgVMy2P48P-72YEFr-WRLbiZETvPVDjatgBbVNCl9vrMzGlYxbn5LoZFWQpTk9cZWr6vFDVxABtNYeTVSpy9BQJ_P07oc4h_t2NxGp39G3GJeo7epT1YWyHheKdVLnVU-ExISjMusScEiUvP6o/s1742/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%206.15.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1742" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHRU7OaVKlLY96mUGH78mkarDQs6TTzgmdORuZrWAfTfgVMy2P48P-72YEFr-WRLbiZETvPVDjatgBbVNCl9vrMzGlYxbn5LoZFWQpTk9cZWr6vFDVxABtNYeTVSpy9BQJ_P07oc4h_t2NxGp39G3GJeo7epT1YWyHheKdVLnVU-ExISjMusScEiUvP6o/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-08%20at%206.15.02%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Low-budget thriller has <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/02/gimme-a.html">THE BREAK</a> baddie and overall capable <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/british%20new%20wave">British New Wave</a> actor William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK, a hybrid of THE ASPHALT JUNGLE as a newly-released older short guy has big plans for a big heist (John Rutland doing Sam Jaffe) and LARCENY INC since they must dig through a pair of locations to reach the targeted goal... Which aren't stores but bombed-out houses from twenty-years past, leading to a lucrative bank vault while Lucas, as a sophisticated yet crooked businessman (like ASPHALT backer Louis Calhern), who really doesn't need the bread (unlike Calhern and more like shifty Marc Lawrence), heads up a group of thugs resembling dockyard barflies...

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WILLIAM LUCAS & JOHN RUTLAND WEATHERING 'CALCULATED RISK'

William Lucas in CALCULATED RISK Year: 1963 Rating: ***1/2 Low-budget thriller has THE BREAK baddie and overall capable British New Wave a...

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