Bryan Forbes

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project—a strategic heist—in this British classic.

Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

Leslie Caron delivers an Oscar-nominated performance as Jane—a young, French, pregnant and unmarried woman. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion.