A witness to a robbery in a cinema Lucy Church is knocked down by a London bus while fleeing one of the thieves. Once taken to hospital the robbers stalk her and one of them tries to kill her. Complications ensue. Mainly set in a hospital this is a suspenseful film that works it way to an effective conclusion. Donald Sinden and Nigel Stock play the two thieves. Sinden as Wade is miscast as a villain with a moustache but Stock is excellent as the cringing Barney who just wants to go and live in New Zealand. Also good in the cast are Ada Reeve as the garrulous Mrs Hudson, Leslie Dwyer as the expectant father and Anna Turner in a short scene as the grieving widow. Other fine British character actors have brief but memorable moments like Charles Victor, Marianne Stone, Anthony Oliver, Allan Cuthbertson and Robert Brooks Turner as 'Man Standing Outside Cinema with Woman'.
The story is not that logical because there was really no need for Wade and Barney to pursue the eyewitness. She had not seen Wade kill the theatre manager and Barney was going off to New Zealand shortly. It would have been more plausible for Wade to kill the unreliable Barney and go off with all the money. But I suppose that would have made for a shorter film. Still, it's a watchable movie in any case, directed by Muriel Box, one of the few women directors of the 1950's and 1960's.
The story is not that logical because there was really no need for Wade and Barney to pursue the eyewitness. She had not seen Wade kill the theatre manager and Barney was going off to New Zealand shortly. It would have been more plausible for Wade to kill the unreliable Barney and go off with all the money. But I suppose that would have made for a shorter film. Still, it's a watchable movie in any case, directed by Muriel Box, one of the few women directors of the 1950's and 1960's.