WIDE BOY is a fun little drama with touches of the thriller about it. The reliable Sydney Tafler stars in the title role as a 'spiv' who engages in further crime when he comes up with the perfect blackmail plot. Melissa Stribling, best known for her turn in Hammer's DRACULA, stars as one of the victims alongside a very good Colin Tapley. The film is slow and talky at times, which is no surprise given that it was made at Merton Park studios like so many potboilers of this era, but it has an interesting plot in which the stakes keep on getting raised until the eventful climax. Ronald Howard plays the detective.
Review of Wide Boy
