The 1960 film "The Day They Robbed the Bank of England" is a fictional story about a group of Irish Republican Army (IRA) men who plan to steal gold bullion from the London Bank of England in 1901 by tunneling underneath and into the bank vaults. The IRA men discover an old sewer line which runs under the bank and need information on the sewers near the bank. One IRA man poses as an archaeologist trying to locate ancient Roman ruins and talks to a "tosher" (a man who scavenges in the sewers). The IRA man takes the tosher to a pub, buys him drinks, and offers him five gold sovereigns on the table to show him around the sewers.

The wrinkled hand pushes the gold sovereigns across. Gold sovereigns have the king or queen on the obverse and St. George slaying the dragon on the reverse. The coins in the film appear to be real gold sovereigns.

Aldo Ray as Norgate
Elizabeth Sellars as Iris Muldoon
Peter O'Toole as Captain Fitch
Kieron Moore as Walsh
Albert Sharpe as Tosher
Director: John Guillermin
Writers: Howard Clewes, Richard Maibaum
Based on the 1959 novel The Day They Robbed the Bank of England by John Brophy