Ex-con Tom, played by Stanley Baker, has no licence and no option but haul ballast for Hawletts in this 1950s feature film. ‘Twelve runs a day or you’re sacked’, is the threat that hangs over the drivers as they speed their Dodge trucks along narrow lanes.

Stanley Baker is joined by other greats of the British cinema: Patrick McGoohan as the violent No. 1 driver and William Hartnell as the corrupt manager. Sid James, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCullum, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins and a young Sean Connery all give support.

The corruption soon has the men at each others’ throats, until they are using their trucks with murderous intent.