Piccadilly Third Stop (1960)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Wolf Rilla

Writer:

Leigh Vance (writer)

Release Date:

3 March 1961 (Finland)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

A Playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Terence Morgan	...	Dominic Colpoys-Owen
Yoko Tani	...	Seraphina Yokami
John Crawford	...	Joe Pready
Mai Zetterling	...	Christine Pready
William Hartnell	...	Colonel
Dennis Price	...	Edward
Ann Lynn	...	Mouse
Charles Kay	...	Toddy
Doug Robinson	...	Albert (as Douglas Robinson)
Gillian Maude	...	Bride's Mother
Trevor Reid	...	Bride's Father
Ronald Leigh-Hunt	...	Police Sergeant
Tony Hawes	...	Harry Prentice

Runtime:

UK:78 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:A | Finland:K-16

Company:

Ethiro-Alliance

Trivia:

During the film Terence Morgan is seen standing on the platform of Belgravia station next to an advert for the film The Shakedown (1960), a film in which he himself stars.

William Hartnell is brilliant

This excellent, unjustifiably overlooked, film, has a great part for future Doctor Who, William Hartnell. His character, "The General", is an over-the-hill safe cracker (in the mold of Ray Milland's character in "The safe cracker" or the crooks in "Timelock"). His Colonel is wonderfully fastidious, with great little mannerisms totally foreign to his portrayal of the Doctor. Terence Morgan is coldly wooden, but this fits his character perfectly, as the wannabe underworld spiv. Lastly, I have to compliment Philip Green's score. Green, while being perhaps a bit TOO prolific, here depicts the London underworld with loads of icy jazz; it seems like every scene someone is playing a record or listening to a tape of his music, it's integrated really cleverly into the film. Totally recommended if you can find it.