Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: gang of robbers led by George rob bank, Fact2: robbers are pursued by police due to mix-up, Fact3: housing estate has been built around tree, Fact4: George and gang take up rooms in nearby house rented by widow and daughter, Fact5: longtime girlfriend is not enamoured about idea of recovering loot
Output (English): Britain, 1950. A gang of robbers led by the selfproclaimed George The Great Brain Sid James rob a bank, stealing £50,000. However, due to a mixup, they are pursued and caught by the police. He manages to stash away the money in a case in the trunk of a hollow tree, before he is collared. The gang are then sentenced to serve fifteen years in Wormwood Scrubs prison. Upon their release in 1965, the gang go back to the spot where they had left the money, only to find it is now a new town, and a housing estate has been built around the tree. To their chagrin they find that the tree is now in the grounds of the local police station, invitingly close to the wall. George and his gang take up rooms in a nearby house rented by a widow and her daughter. In order to provide a respectable front, George is forced to marry his longtime girlfriend Myrtle Robbins Sylvia Syms who is not so enamoured about the idea of recovering the loot, and wants George to settle down with her. The incompetent criminals fail in their numerous attempts to get over and under the wall, all the while trying to conceal their true activities from their landlady, her daughter and a local police constable Jim Dale who also stays there. Eventually when the men have botched an attempt to tunnel into the grounds, the frustrated women hatch their own plot to gain the money, and succeed, only to find that the case is full of mice and the money has been shredded up by the mice.