The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)

Directors

Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker

Cast

Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Kieron Moore, Peter Wyngarde

The story

The film dramatises the 1909 Tottenham Outrage – a bungled wages-snatch which resulted in the murder of a police officer and a ten-year-old bystander as well as the deaths of the two armed robbers – and the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street, in which armed personnel of the Metropolitan Police and Scots Guards surrounded a house in East End of London occupied by a gang who had killed three City of London Police officers during a bungled attempt to break into a jeweller's shop. The film depicts the two events as both taking place in 1911 and as both being the work of the same gang.

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