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#SilverScreenBlack reviews: 'Cash on Demand' (1961)

(1hr 20 mins)

4/5 (strongrooms)

Scrooge Heist: Ebenezer Cushing is forced to question his miserly ways when a thief begins taking his mountains of cash.

👍Hepcats:
Great acting from leads Peter Cushing, André Morell (who two years prior were Holmes & Watson) and Richard Vernon.
The cat-and-mouse power play between Cushing and Morell is electric.
And I haven't wanted a thief to get away with it this much since 'Inside Job' (2006).

👎Squares:
A Christmas crime caper with a calm, well-dressed, sinister mastermind with facial hair, trying to access a fortune from a vault; and a protagonist at odds with his family and yet risking it all to save them.
How is 'Die Hard' a Christmas tradition, but this isn't?...

📽️Favourite scene:
Morell demonstrating how in planning this heist, he has acquired more knowledge of the people that Cushing employs, than Cushing has gleaned in 15 years as their manager.

🧨'Cash on Demand' = 'Die Hard'?:
MORELL: "I want bank robberies to be smoother, more sociable."
GRUBER: "I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, co-operative."

💰'Cash on Demand' = 'Die Hard'?:
MORELL: "I am an uncommon thief."
GRUBER: "I am an exceptional thief."

😭'Cash on Demand' = 'Die Hard'?:
McCLANE: "It took me a while to figure out what a jerk I've been."
CUSHING: "What is the usual sentence, for completely failing in my duty towards my staff?"