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    Where’s Jack? (1969)

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    In his first straight acting performance, old rocker Tommy Steele stars as Jack Sheppard, the notorious highwayman and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.

    Jack is working as an apprentice to a clockmaker when his brother Tom is sentenced to be hanged for theft. To save Tom, who has a wife and children, Jack seeks help from the brutal Thieftaker General, Jonathan Wild (Stanley Baker, who also produced the film).

    Wild mediates between the government and the criminal underworld, fencing stolen goods and delivering thieves who don’t pay him tribute over to the authorities. He assigns Jack a robbery in return for saving Tom from the gallows, but when Jack learns that Tom is instead to be transported to the colonies for a life of hard labour he refuses to cut Wild in on the proceeds.

    Wild then has Jack thrown in Newgate prison, from which he escapes, forming his own criminal outfit with another of Wild’s disgruntled associates, Joseph ‘Blueskin’ Blake (Dudley Foster).

    Determined to crush this affront to his authority, Wild uses Jack’s mistress Bess (Fiona Lewis) to trap him and has him jailed again.

    By this time, Jack’s exploits have made him the talk of London, and one of his old victims, Lady Darlington (Sue Lloyd), sends him an invitation in Newgate to attend one of her balls. A second jailbreak gains Jack legendary status, and he and Bess escape Wild’s clutches by fleeing to the countryside.

    Bess wants them to leave for America and a new life, but when Jack hears that King George has bet the Lord Chancellor (Alan Badel) that Jack could steal the chain of office from his neck, he is tempted back to London for one last spectacular robbery.

    Jack Sheppard
    Tommy Steele
    Jonathan Wild
    Stanley Baker
    Lord Chancellor
    Alan Badel
    Joseph ‘Blueskin’ Blake
    Dudley Foster
    Edgworth Bess Lyon
    Fiona Lewis
    Lady Darlington
    Sue Lloyd
    Leatherchest
    Noel Purcell
    Reverend Wagstaff
    Eddie Byrne
    Hogarth
    Michael Elphick
    Mr Hind
    Roy Evans

    Director
    James Clavell

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