One Round (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0337754/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Danny Green</a>) is heard to hit or cosh the van driver who afterwards is seen unconscious.

Louis (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0007042/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Herbert Lom</a>) draws a cosh to strike the security guard on the head. The strike is heard but not seen.

The barrow man (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0398110/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Frankie Howerd</a>) hits the taxi driver in the face.

One Round (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0337754/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Danny Green</a>) rushes after Louis (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0007042/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Herbert Lom</a>) who draws a knife which is not used.

Louis (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0007042/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Herbert Lom</a>) repeatedly hits One Round (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0337754/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Danny Green</a>) on the head with a cosh to no adverse effect.

Four of the robbers hold or smoke cigarettes in the scene planning the robbery. Professor Marcus (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000027/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Alec Guinness</a>) is shown in close-up smoking a cigarette.

Louis (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0007042/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Herbert Lom</a>) and Harry (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000634/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Peter Sellers</a>) are briefly seen smoking cigarettes in the background of subsequent scenes.

Louis (<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0007042/?ref_=ttpg_gi">Herbert Lom</a>) smokes a cigarette throughout a scene following their discovery.

On three occasions, an apparently dead body is seen being carried to its disposal.