THE STABLE DOOR is perhaps one of the most interesting - and entertaining - insurance adverts ever made. It takes the form of a 35-minute short movie in which a criminal gang (including Harry Fowler among their number) stake out a warehouse and work out ways to rob it. Meanwhile, an insurance salesman just so happens to be shoring up the place to protect it from potential crime. It's a lively little piece with some good character work, and goes down as one of those 'unclassifiable' pieces of cinema.
5 Reviews
Olde Worlde Britain.
rxelex1 December 2020
Actually and infomercial sponsored by Insurance Indsutry to highlight the need fo rgood locks and secure premises.
Hackneyed plot about old burglar being released from jail and immediatly plotting warehouse robbery.
Sets show how grim and dirty Britain was in 1966 when filmed but curiously a steam train features but was sadly broken up shortly after filming.
Nightwatchman outwits one of them but rest escape.
Worth watching for the grim settings and locomotive.
Every b character actor present
malcolmgsw25 September 2019
A message from the insurance companies to businesses about the need forcrime prevention.
Billboards shout that yet another dock strike is underway.
There are still steam trains on the railway.
Many well known character actors can be seen
The Stable Door
Prismark1021 January 2024
Here is a curiosity. A 'B movie' short which is actually a crime prevention film by the British Insurance Industry.
A group of thieves are planning a robbery of a warehouse during the dock strike in London.
The firm has shoddy security. Their insurance firm has sent an assessor who asked the owner to bolster his security. Door locks, padlocks, the skylight window are all weak points.
Even then the owner is lackadaisical with getting the work done. While the gang are getting itchy about delaying the job. Their inside man knows about the visit from insurance company.
It is all a case of whether the firm will bolt the stable door before the thief arrives. It is unpretentious and entertaining.
A group of thieves are planning a robbery of a warehouse during the dock strike in London.
The firm has shoddy security. Their insurance firm has sent an assessor who asked the owner to bolster his security. Door locks, padlocks, the skylight window are all weak points.
Even then the owner is lackadaisical with getting the work done. While the gang are getting itchy about delaying the job. Their inside man knows about the visit from insurance company.
It is all a case of whether the firm will bolt the stable door before the thief arrives. It is unpretentious and entertaining.
Insurance Advertising In Story Form
boblipton20 May 2023
Frank Jarvis has spotted a likely lot of transistorized goods for his mob to steal from an underprotected warehouse, stranded by a dock strike. His father, just back from the nick, is insistent on good planning and operations. He sends Jarvis to work at the place and get an idea of its security. It turns out that time is running short for the job. The company that insures the warehouse has suggested upgrades, and they're about to put them in. Can the job be done before?
It's a 32-minute feature sponsored by the British Insurance Association, and it's a well written, directed, and shot; cameraman Stephen Dade had been the cinematographer of Zulu the previous year. There's humor in the businesslike way the thieves conduct themselves, and tension in the robbery. It's a very pleasant surprise.
It's a 32-minute feature sponsored by the British Insurance Association, and it's a well written, directed, and shot; cameraman Stephen Dade had been the cinematographer of Zulu the previous year. There's humor in the businesslike way the thieves conduct themselves, and tension in the robbery. It's a very pleasant surprise.
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