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Plot. After pulling off a train robbery by tricking the train into stopping with false signal lights, 'Little Walter' and his gang are forced to hide out on a remote Cornish island in a monastery (which they buy with their "ill-gotten gains"), disguised as monks.
Crooks in Cloisters. Date: 1964. Director: Jeremy Summers. Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation. Stars: Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Grégoire Aslan, Bernard Cribbins, Melvyn Hayes, Davy Kaye, Wilfrid Brambell. Location (s): Cornwall, Hertfordshire. Region (s): South East A-D, South West.
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With Met Police Superintendent Mungo having recently jailed a rival mob and now quickly closing in on them, a group of London thieves organise to retreat to a rural monastery, on an island just off the Cornish coast, in order to lie low.
A gang of London crooks rob a train, then hide out in a remote island monastery, posing as monks. With the help of a local fisherman they continue to deal in stolen goods, but Superintendent Mungo is on their trail.
- Jeremy Summers
- Associated British Picture Corp.
- Gordon L.T. Scott
- T.J Morrison
As if the story was intent on reforming its characters through their location in a monastery, Crooks in Cloisters showed the titular ne'erdowells the error of their ways by putting them to work in an improving environment with a light dash of that old time religion.
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini.
