Hangman Film Company

Four career criminals, two glamorous bank workers and one over-the-hill has-been all happen to be planning a robbery on a London bank on the same day, by sheer coincidence. The two investigating detectives must try and deduce how these seemingly unrelated people came to be in the area and which were responsible for the lifting a priceless emerald.

In a lawless outpost in 17th Century England, the people have ceased to be God-fearing but learn to fear the Devil instead.