The true story of an amazing robbery
Script by Richard Du Cann
Others taking part include John Bennett. Felix Felton
Charles Hodgson , Godfrey Kenton
David March . Leslie Perrins
Eric Phillips , Keith Pyott and Anthony Viccars
Production by Joe Burroughs
Acknowledgment is made to the book ' The Great Pearl Robbery ' by Christmas Humphreys
In July 1913 a necklace containing sixty-one pearls-insured for £ 150,000—was sent by registered post from Paris to London. When the parcel was opened in Hatton Garden it was found to contain eleven lumps of sugar. Scotland Yard began an immediate investigation and, after a series of fantastic coincidences seldom paralleled in fiction, sixty of the pearls were recovered. Nothing has since been heard of the missing pearl. The thieves were caught and stood their trial at the Old Bailey. How they contrived to steal the necklace remains a mystery.