Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
Cash on Demand
Scored from 75 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Harry Fordyce, played by Peter Cushing, is the exacting and widely disliked manager of a small City and Colonial Bank branch in an English town two days before Christmas. A visitor calling himself Colonel Gore-Hepburn arrives posing as an inspector from the bank's insurance company, then reveals that he has come to empty the vault and that accomplices are holding Fordyce's wife and son. Forced to walk the robber through his own branch's security procedures while the clerks work on around them, Fordyce has to keep up appearances through the day. Hammer's film, adapted from Jacques Gillies' television play, unfolds in near real time and almost entirely inside the bank.
Released in 1961, Cash on Demand is a crime, drama and mystery film. It runs 1h 45m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Only 75 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 76 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 18 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Cash on Demand lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 75.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
