Heist movie premiere for Caine gang (age 435!)

IT IS not often that men of a certain age take centre stage on the red carpet.

But Sir Michael Caine, 85, Ray Winstone, 61, Sir Michael Gambon, 77, Paul Whitehouse, 60, Sir Tom Courtenay, 81, and Jim Broadbent, 69, came together last night for the premiere of King of Thieves.

The film is based on the infamous ageing Hatton Garden thieves who pulled off what is believed to be the biggest burglary in British legal history in 2015.

The gang stole jewellery and valuables worth an estimated £14million by boring a hole into the wall of a vault in London’s jewellery quarter, before ransacking 73 safety deposit boxes. The film has come under fire for glorifying the crime. David Joffe, treasurer of the London Diamond Bourse, a gems trading floor which represents numerous jewellers and shops, has said victims are furious a new film had been made.

But responding to those claims yesterday Winstone – who plays Daniel Jones – said: ‘If you get caught and you go to prison, that is not glamorising something. You get caught and you get punished and we show that.’

Sir Michael, who plays gang leader Brian Reader, added: ‘It’s a film about age, which happens to be about a robbery, which they all went to prison for doing and they are still in prison for doing because they won’t tell where the gold is.’

King Of Thieves is released tomorrow.