(Sir Harry Parkins)

Out of Work, out of luck and out of money, George Thompkins (Charley Boorman) is tired of life in a sleepy village, he needs excitement, and fast.

Returning from the pub he stumbles upon a mysterious metal box. Breaking the box open at his home he discovers £ 300,000 in cash accompanied by a grisly severed hand. George is about to learn that big money breeds big trouble.

Interrupted by Hazel, his gentle landlady and her devious sister Veronica, George makes a run for it. While George is burying the money in a wood Hazel suffers a fatal heart attack. Seizing the chance Veronica blames her sister’s death on an attack by George. The motive? Her life savings. Now George, the world’s most unprofessional criminal is on the run from both the mob and the law.

Tracked down by a pair of vicious henchmen George is taken to the mansion of Sir Harry Parkins (Richard E. Grant), a debonair mastermind who governs his criminal dealings with a sadistic zeal. Convinced that George is the chancer who stole his £ 300,000 and separated the previous bagman from his hand, Sir Harry demands that George assumes the dead man’s role or pays with his life. With his hand chained to a cash box wired with tamper-deterrant explosive, George becomes Sir Harry’s latest cash courier. And so begins his journey through a rollercoaster underworld, inhabited by a host of bizarre characters who all share one thing in common – they’re all after George’s money.

Friend or foe, George can trust no one. Bounced from the voluptuous nurse, the menacing machinations of a terrorist gang and the clutches of British Intelligence, George is perpetually saved and betrayed by those around him. Mistaken in turns as a murderer, gangster and a spy and thrown from speeding cars and spiraling helicopters, George has to use all his wits to avoid a nasty end and find peace in paradise. But who with? A chance of a new life appears, a beautiful but unloved woman who also dreams of freedom.

Two abandoned souls desperate to start a new life, Eilean and George fall passionately in love and plot their escape. Who needs money anyway? Seizing their chance, the lovers head for the airport to live their dreams together… But surely, a little spending money wouldn’t hurt, would it?

Charley Boorman
Richard E. Grant
Sharon Devlin
Carole Ashby
Nick Holder
Kevin Howarth

Bald Eagle Motion Pictures Limited

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