Screening of the 1961 Hammer heist thriller 'Cash On Demand', directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing, as part of Christmas at QUAD.
Cash On Demand is screening at QUAD on Sunday 6 December, as part of the Christmas at QUAD programme. It's a 1961 Hammer heist thriller directed by Quentin Lawrence, an English-language film that runs for 84 minutes.
If you're familiar with Hammer, you'll know them for the gothic horror, but this is a different beast entirely. It's essentially Hammer's take on A Christmas Carol, though the miser here is a fastidious bank manager played by Peter Cushing, and the 'ghost' is the debonair robber André Morell. The plot follows a plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve, and it unfolds in almost real time, so the tension builds as the clock ticks down. It's a tight, focused piece of storytelling rather than a sprawling crime epic.
There's a bit of history to the casting, too. Cushing and Morell had just played Holmes and Watson for Hammer in The Hound of the Baskervilles, and they'd co-starred in the BBC's controversial 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Seeing them back together here, playing opposite each other instead of as partners, is part of the draw. Over the years, it's come to be regarded by many as one of Hammer's best films, and it's easy to see why when you watch it.
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The screening is on Sunday 6 December at 1pm. Because it's a QUAD Essentials screening, the tickets are priced slightly differently from the usual: £11.50 for a standard ticket and £9.50 for concessions. It's a short film, just under an hour and a half, so it's an easy one to fit into a Sunday afternoon.
