During the course of the film it is stated that Carl is making for Gillespie Road Station.Well of course this is Arsenal.The climax of the film actually takes place in Highbury during after a match,possibly against Bolton,which I might have attended.So many memories came flooding back.This may have been a damaged print but I am grateful to Talking Pictures for showing it.Incidentally Tim Turner,the narrator of Look At Life is featured in a small part.
16 Reviews
The Lower Depths
richardchatten13 September 2020
Back in 1987 I used to occasionally pass Arsenal Station on my way to the Polytechnic of North London, and this film was over a quarter of a century old even then (yet with the office of a senior policeman already adorned with a portrait of the present Queen).
Despite the title this is not a comedy but a grim little caper film on which the Grand National logo from the 1930s is incongruously accompanied during the opening credits by the usual ubiquitous early sixties crime film jazz score from the days when people smoked constantly, they still hanged murderers and the ability to pay £6000 into your account attracted the interest of the authorities.
Although top-billed, William Hartnell appears only occasionally as the inspector investigating the case. Michael Ripper on the other hand has a much more substantial role than usual as a retired safecracker trying to go straight, but tempted back by the prospect of the then life-changing sum of a thousand pounds.
Despite the title this is not a comedy but a grim little caper film on which the Grand National logo from the 1930s is incongruously accompanied during the opening credits by the usual ubiquitous early sixties crime film jazz score from the days when people smoked constantly, they still hanged murderers and the ability to pay £6000 into your account attracted the interest of the authorities.
Although top-billed, William Hartnell appears only occasionally as the inspector investigating the case. Michael Ripper on the other hand has a much more substantial role than usual as a retired safecracker trying to go straight, but tempted back by the prospect of the then life-changing sum of a thousand pounds.
Sometimes You Lose By Winning
boblipton8 October 2021
George Mikell spent three years in prison and was then deported for a job they never got his associates on. Now he's back in London to collect wife Betty McDowall and his money from the job from Eddie Byrne. Both tell him no, so he collects retired safecracker Michael Ripper and breaks into Byrne's safe. On the way out, Mikell shoots and kills a constable. Now he's got the police after him in the person of William Hartnell.
It's a well-scripted, dirty little crime drama from Montgomery Tully. It's also done so cheaply that it might have been shot for television: lighting, sets, even the way the fights are staged are identical to TV production. The sound is considerably better, but that's almost certainly a matter of the recording medium. Still, for 67-minute B, it moves along at a good clip.
It's a well-scripted, dirty little crime drama from Montgomery Tully. It's also done so cheaply that it might have been shot for television: lighting, sets, even the way the fights are staged are identical to TV production. The sound is considerably better, but that's almost certainly a matter of the recording medium. Still, for 67-minute B, it moves along at a good clip.
Efficient 'B'-pic from genre stalwart Montgomery Tully.
jamesraeburn200317 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A foreign criminal called Carl Stock (played by George Mikell) was deported from Britain for his part in a raid. Having slipped back into the country on a forged passport, he sets about getting his share of the loot from his former accomplice, the Soho gangster and club owner Sam Hare (played by Eddie Byrne). He recruits another ex-con, the safecracker turned café owner Lenny Lane (played by Michael Ripper), who reluctantly agrees to help him break into Hare's Jackpot Club and steal £6000 from his safe. As the pair make good their escape, Stock shoots and kills a policeman. Stock finds himself a wanted man by the Yard, led by Supt Frawley (played by William Hartnell), and also by Hare since he stole some papers that would get him into trouble with the law if they got their hands on them...
Efficient British 'B'-pic from prolific quota quickie specialist Montgomery Tully. He keeps the well-knit storyline from the screenplay he co-wrote with producer Maurice J. Wilson moving along at a good pace right up until the finale at the Arsenal Stadium Football ground. It has a reasonable feeling for realism and place even though one can see the difference between the studio exteriors and the handful of authentic location shots interspersed with what was likely to have been stock footage of an actual football match taking place. Betty McDowall provides the emotional element to the story as Mikell's wife who clearly still feels something for him since she is reluctant to hand him over to the police as she knows he would hang for the policeman's murder. She is also torn between her new boyfriend, the fashion photographer (played by Tim Turner), and her husband's demands that she flee the country with him and the money. Eddie Byrne is excellent as the hardened criminal Hare whom Mikell quickly discovers it isn't a great idea to double cross. Michael Ripper, a mainstay at the Hammer horror studio, scores as the retired safebreaker who is trying to go straight but, ultimately, cannot escape his past as he gets toped into Mikell's plan. The top billed William Hartnell, who also starred in Tully's excellent debut feature Murder In Reverse (1945), provides authority as the hard nosed Yard man, but it isn't his best performance by a long way.
Efficient British 'B'-pic from prolific quota quickie specialist Montgomery Tully. He keeps the well-knit storyline from the screenplay he co-wrote with producer Maurice J. Wilson moving along at a good pace right up until the finale at the Arsenal Stadium Football ground. It has a reasonable feeling for realism and place even though one can see the difference between the studio exteriors and the handful of authentic location shots interspersed with what was likely to have been stock footage of an actual football match taking place. Betty McDowall provides the emotional element to the story as Mikell's wife who clearly still feels something for him since she is reluctant to hand him over to the police as she knows he would hang for the policeman's murder. She is also torn between her new boyfriend, the fashion photographer (played by Tim Turner), and her husband's demands that she flee the country with him and the money. Eddie Byrne is excellent as the hardened criminal Hare whom Mikell quickly discovers it isn't a great idea to double cross. Michael Ripper, a mainstay at the Hammer horror studio, scores as the retired safebreaker who is trying to go straight but, ultimately, cannot escape his past as he gets toped into Mikell's plan. The top billed William Hartnell, who also starred in Tully's excellent debut feature Murder In Reverse (1945), provides authority as the hard nosed Yard man, but it isn't his best performance by a long way.
Atmospheric Pot boiler
ygwerin113 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Carl Stock returns to his old London haunts to get what he considered, is due to him from an old job that he was involved in.
But he found that his former colleague is unwilling to help him, or even to admit that they ever knew each other.
Stock visited his wife to try and convince her that they still had a future together.
Needing money Stock forced an old acquaintance to help him do a job, but an unfortunate event occurred afterwards.
Stock goes on the run with both underworld villians and the old bill chasing after him.
Sam Hare a villian cum businessman is among the list, of those who are determined to locate Carl Stock.
Hare and Stock are eventually involved in a chase and tussle to the death in Arsenal football stadium, with Stock still fighting to escape.
But he found that his former colleague is unwilling to help him, or even to admit that they ever knew each other.
Stock visited his wife to try and convince her that they still had a future together.
Needing money Stock forced an old acquaintance to help him do a job, but an unfortunate event occurred afterwards.
Stock goes on the run with both underworld villians and the old bill chasing after him.
Sam Hare a villian cum businessman is among the list, of those who are determined to locate Carl Stock.
Hare and Stock are eventually involved in a chase and tussle to the death in Arsenal football stadium, with Stock still fighting to escape.
"You can't turn off affection like a tap"
hwg1957-102-26570425 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Deported criminal Carl Stock returns to London to retrieve some money he is owed from a previous robbery and also get back with his estranged wife Kay. The plot thickens however leading to safecracking and murder. I liked this low budget crime film directed by the underrated Montgomery Tully. It moves at a good pace and has a neat conclusion at the Arsenal football ground. Mainly liked it for the performances of the ubiquituous Michael Ripper as the put-upon Lenny, William Hartnell as the acidulous Supt. Frawley and in a small role Sylvia Davies as perky young Sally. The music score by Don Banks had some nice jazzy moments. An undemanding film but worth a watch.
One wonders how authentic the safe cracking sequence was and if it ever gave anybody inspiration to burgle a peter. Who knows?
One wonders how authentic the safe cracking sequence was and if it ever gave anybody inspiration to burgle a peter. Who knows?
A Jackpot that lacks a big pay-off
DPMay25 June 2017
A low budget British crime thriller from the early 1960s. The plot centres around a crook, Carl Stock (George Mikell). Having previously taken the rap for a robbery, he ended up doing time in prison and being deported from Britain, which not only cost him his share of the loot but also his marriage. Now he has finally managed to slip back into the country to reclaim what he considers to be his. However, his former colleague (Eddie Byrne) is now something of a big shot and is unwilling to entertain Stock's requests for financial recompense. Likewise Stock's wife, Kay (Betty McDowall) has moved on with her life and isn't altogether pleased when he turns up again out of the blue. And so the situation plays out, and it isn't long before the local police, headed by Superintendent Frawley (William Hartnell, just before he would land his defining role as television's original Doctor Who) are concerned with events.
Although the situation has plenty of potential, unfortunately the film plods along in a very pedestrian fashion and seems incapable of delivering a genuinely surprise twist, tension or intrigue. The majority of the characters are completely one-dimensional and the relationships between them, including crucially the one between Stock and his wife, lack any depth whatsoever. The film's saving grace for me was the character of Lenny Lane, former safe-cracker now gone straight, who is dragged back into the mire. The role is played by Michael Ripper, too often relegated to bit parts in films but here he gets something more substantial and shows how capable a performer he is. Lane and his young friend Sally (Sylvia Davies) are probably the only characters in the whole piece who are anything other than bland. Even settings in the London streets, a nightclub and (notably) Arsenal FC's football stadium fail to come alive under Montgomery Tully's limp direction.
Little-seen for many years, Jackpot recently underwent a restoration allowing it to be broadcast on television again. This restored print unfortunately still shows signs of damage and ends very abruptly before cutting into what are clearly recreated closing captions. I would hope the original release had a more satisfying closing scene but given the amount of dross that makes up the bulk of the picture, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it hadn't.
As a point of interest, this was the third project that Eddie Byrne and Betty McDowall had starred in together in little over a year, having previously collaborated on the film Jack The Ripper and the TV series Call Me Sam.
Although the situation has plenty of potential, unfortunately the film plods along in a very pedestrian fashion and seems incapable of delivering a genuinely surprise twist, tension or intrigue. The majority of the characters are completely one-dimensional and the relationships between them, including crucially the one between Stock and his wife, lack any depth whatsoever. The film's saving grace for me was the character of Lenny Lane, former safe-cracker now gone straight, who is dragged back into the mire. The role is played by Michael Ripper, too often relegated to bit parts in films but here he gets something more substantial and shows how capable a performer he is. Lane and his young friend Sally (Sylvia Davies) are probably the only characters in the whole piece who are anything other than bland. Even settings in the London streets, a nightclub and (notably) Arsenal FC's football stadium fail to come alive under Montgomery Tully's limp direction.
Little-seen for many years, Jackpot recently underwent a restoration allowing it to be broadcast on television again. This restored print unfortunately still shows signs of damage and ends very abruptly before cutting into what are clearly recreated closing captions. I would hope the original release had a more satisfying closing scene but given the amount of dross that makes up the bulk of the picture, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it hadn't.
As a point of interest, this was the third project that Eddie Byrne and Betty McDowall had starred in together in little over a year, having previously collaborated on the film Jack The Ripper and the TV series Call Me Sam.
An interesting undiscovered British crime film
vampire_hounddog9 October 2020
A known fellon and thief (George Mikell) returns to London and demands money from a former associate (Eddie Byrne) who's the big shot owner of the 'The Jackpot Club', but refuses to hand him his owed money. He convinces another former associate (Michael Ripper), the owner of a worker's caff and now gone straight to help him rob the the club's safe.
A little seen low budget British crime film that holds the viewer's attention throughout and includes a finale shot at the Arsenal footaball stadium Gillespie Road grounds.
William Hartnell who would go onto play the future first Doctor Who three years after this film has a strong part as the police inspector. The film was recently restored and is better than the previously available print, but there are clearly several frames missing from the film.
A little seen low budget British crime film that holds the viewer's attention throughout and includes a finale shot at the Arsenal footaball stadium Gillespie Road grounds.
William Hartnell who would go onto play the future first Doctor Who three years after this film has a strong part as the police inspector. The film was recently restored and is better than the previously available print, but there are clearly several frames missing from the film.
Carl Wins the Jackpot - and Nets Twelve Quid!!
kidboots11 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Montgomery Tully was a versatile and prolific "B" movie director whose
touch was always "A" grade. Originally working on documentaries during
the war, he also made over a dozen short mysteries in the "Scotland
Yard" series, mostly at Merton Park studios. "Jackpot" with it's cop-killer
protagonist harked back to the "Blue Lamp" - even setting the climax in
the claustrophobic realm of a sports stadium, Highbury, the Arsenal
Football Club ground.
Carl Stock (George Mikell) is back in England and risking deportation to collect his share of the money owing to him from a robbery but it seems that everyone has moved on. Lenny (Michael Ripper gives an emotional performance), a former gang member has a seedy café but at least "I don't have to cross the road everytime I see a dick", his wife realises she doesn't love him anymore and now has a new boyfriend, a photographer and Sam (Eddie Byrne) has now come up in the world as owner of the Jackpot night club and doesn't want to know Carl anymore. Carl convinces a nervy Lenny to crack the Jackpot's safe but the robbery goes wrong and Carl kills a cop. Carl (who Mikell plays as a sociopath) goes to ground and the film now switches, to give the police a chance to shine. William Hartnell for all his star billing only comes in about half way through but from his first scene (in that plaid coat) he is masterful, he and his crack team can see that Lenny could be leaned on to talk but as Sam and his heavies learn Lenny is made of sterner stuff!!
This film has a strong message - there are no good guy crooks. While participating in the robbery Lenny wants to stay and help the soon toa be dead policeman, he has gone straight and has no time for crooks now!! Carl's wife (played by Australian born actress Betty McDowall) is sympathetic and sensible. The movie loses a bit of credibility at the climax - somehow in the thick of 10s of 1,000s of people Sam never loses sight of the agitated Carl.
A simple crime drama expertly done!!
Carl Stock (George Mikell) is back in England and risking deportation to collect his share of the money owing to him from a robbery but it seems that everyone has moved on. Lenny (Michael Ripper gives an emotional performance), a former gang member has a seedy café but at least "I don't have to cross the road everytime I see a dick", his wife realises she doesn't love him anymore and now has a new boyfriend, a photographer and Sam (Eddie Byrne) has now come up in the world as owner of the Jackpot night club and doesn't want to know Carl anymore. Carl convinces a nervy Lenny to crack the Jackpot's safe but the robbery goes wrong and Carl kills a cop. Carl (who Mikell plays as a sociopath) goes to ground and the film now switches, to give the police a chance to shine. William Hartnell for all his star billing only comes in about half way through but from his first scene (in that plaid coat) he is masterful, he and his crack team can see that Lenny could be leaned on to talk but as Sam and his heavies learn Lenny is made of sterner stuff!!
This film has a strong message - there are no good guy crooks. While participating in the robbery Lenny wants to stay and help the soon toa be dead policeman, he has gone straight and has no time for crooks now!! Carl's wife (played by Australian born actress Betty McDowall) is sympathetic and sensible. The movie loses a bit of credibility at the climax - somehow in the thick of 10s of 1,000s of people Sam never loses sight of the agitated Carl.
A simple crime drama expertly done!!
Crackpot !
kalbimassey25 February 2021
Poor old Lenny (Michael Ripper). All he craves is a quiet life, selling coffee, which nobody ever drinks and ham sandwiches, without the ham. His world is turned upside down when ex-con and deportee George Mikell, no, MIKELL returns illegally, aboard a merchant ship, upon which a lame brained effort to cover the vessel's original name has been made.
Lock expert Ripper is coerced into breaking into Mikell's wife's flat, followed by a safe cracking job, by way of retribution on corrupt club owner, Eddie Byrne, for non-payment of Mikell's cut from a previous job. The prolonged robbery scene, intended no doubt to be nail-bitingly suspenseful is just ponderous and tedious. Even the decent jazz score is ruined by Ripper's relentless drilling!
The police, led by William Hartnell with his crack team, conduct their investigations with Borisesque behind the curve efficiency.
The script is pretty much what you would expect from a twelve year old, invited to write a gangster story. Hamstrung by stilted, wooden performances and a lack of any real substance or subplot.
Focusing on the positives: The delightful, underrated Betty McDowall salvages some artistic integrity as Mikell's mistreated wife, who has found a new love. In addition, as the action moves to the Arsenal stadium on match day, there is fleeting library footage of a game. The solitary goal, however, when it arrives, a scrappy over-the-line affair, draws merely shoulder shrugging indifference from the crowd. Oh, come ON! At least entertain us with a 30 yard netbusting screamer, accompanied by an erupting, uproarious ecstatic stadium. The prospect of Mikell attempting his getaway whilst being unceremoniously jostled amongst 20,000 surging, delirious, rattle wielding home fans would have made essential viewing. What a missed opportunity! Maybe the Gunners were always resigned to playing at the Highbury Library.
Billed by the T.V. channel as a 'lost' film, one is compelled to ask: Was it really lost, or did somebody discreetly put it out with the rubbish? One of relatively few films made by Grand National Pictures, it's hard to imagine many punters racing to back this nag. However, at 71 minutes, this passingly noirish potboiler is fairly brisk in making its point. In the event of the patience shredding mechanism kicking in, then simply fast forward to enjoy the absurdly abrupt ending.
Lock expert Ripper is coerced into breaking into Mikell's wife's flat, followed by a safe cracking job, by way of retribution on corrupt club owner, Eddie Byrne, for non-payment of Mikell's cut from a previous job. The prolonged robbery scene, intended no doubt to be nail-bitingly suspenseful is just ponderous and tedious. Even the decent jazz score is ruined by Ripper's relentless drilling!
The police, led by William Hartnell with his crack team, conduct their investigations with Borisesque behind the curve efficiency.
The script is pretty much what you would expect from a twelve year old, invited to write a gangster story. Hamstrung by stilted, wooden performances and a lack of any real substance or subplot.
Focusing on the positives: The delightful, underrated Betty McDowall salvages some artistic integrity as Mikell's mistreated wife, who has found a new love. In addition, as the action moves to the Arsenal stadium on match day, there is fleeting library footage of a game. The solitary goal, however, when it arrives, a scrappy over-the-line affair, draws merely shoulder shrugging indifference from the crowd. Oh, come ON! At least entertain us with a 30 yard netbusting screamer, accompanied by an erupting, uproarious ecstatic stadium. The prospect of Mikell attempting his getaway whilst being unceremoniously jostled amongst 20,000 surging, delirious, rattle wielding home fans would have made essential viewing. What a missed opportunity! Maybe the Gunners were always resigned to playing at the Highbury Library.
Billed by the T.V. channel as a 'lost' film, one is compelled to ask: Was it really lost, or did somebody discreetly put it out with the rubbish? One of relatively few films made by Grand National Pictures, it's hard to imagine many punters racing to back this nag. However, at 71 minutes, this passingly noirish potboiler is fairly brisk in making its point. In the event of the patience shredding mechanism kicking in, then simply fast forward to enjoy the absurdly abrupt ending.
Seen it all before
Leofwine_draca17 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
JACKPOT is a straight-up British crime drama made on a tiny budget with a handful of actors and in just a couple of locations. The story is about a couple of safebreakers whose latest job leaves a policeman dead. They subsequently find themselves pursued by both the dogged police and the owner of the business they ripped off. The film is familiar to fans of the genre and in truth it doesn't offer up anything we haven't seen before, but at least a few familiar faces get paid for showing up. These include William Hartnell as the detective, Eddie Byrne as a ruthless businessman, and best of the lot, a typically sympathetic Michael Ripper in a role separate from his parts in Hammer Horror fare.
Jackpot
Prismark1012 May 2020
Jackpot is a British low budget B movie thriller.
Carl Stock is a foreigner and an crook who was deported after being released from prison. Carl has illegally returned to Britain and wants his share of the loot and get back together with his wife.
Only to discover that his wife has move on with her life and the gangster Same Hare who was minding his share of the loot does not want to give it back.
Same runs The Jackpot Club and Carl plans to rob the safe as revenge. With the help of former safe cracker Lenny Lane who now runs a coffee shop, they steal £6000.
Unfortunately while making their getaway a policeman is shot dead. Now they are pursued by the police and the club owner.
A cheap routine thriller with a climax taking place in a football ground between Carl and Sam with the police being in little rush. Even with a short running time, there are long scenes of a drill being used on a safe.
Worth watching to see William Hartnell playing the detective on the hunt for the robbers and having little time for Sam Hare.
Carl Stock is a foreigner and an crook who was deported after being released from prison. Carl has illegally returned to Britain and wants his share of the loot and get back together with his wife.
Only to discover that his wife has move on with her life and the gangster Same Hare who was minding his share of the loot does not want to give it back.
Same runs The Jackpot Club and Carl plans to rob the safe as revenge. With the help of former safe cracker Lenny Lane who now runs a coffee shop, they steal £6000.
Unfortunately while making their getaway a policeman is shot dead. Now they are pursued by the police and the club owner.
A cheap routine thriller with a climax taking place in a football ground between Carl and Sam with the police being in little rush. Even with a short running time, there are long scenes of a drill being used on a safe.
Worth watching to see William Hartnell playing the detective on the hunt for the robbers and having little time for Sam Hare.
British Noir Drama at its Finest
hammondjh-0047910 December 2021
Saw this for the first time today (I'm 66+) and it was so refreshing to see some enjoyable TV! This film shows how crime films used to be made. Quality actors, professional directing, excellent storyline and not a swear word or single incident of sordid or depraved content so typical of Hollywooden 'moovees'. Unfortunately, the kind of story this tells is as common today as it was when the film was made, so this film has the added bonus of a timeless content. If you want an enjoyable film that will keep you glued to your sofa, give this a go. It's up there with 'Pool of London' and 'The Blue Lamp'.
Jackpot
CinemaSerf12 February 2023
George Mikell ("Stock") takes the fall for a London gangster and when he gets out of prison after over a year of hard labour, returns to Eddie Byrne ("Sam Hare") to get his share. Nothing doing, so he determines to team up with a former safe-cracking friend and help himself to the £6,000 in his safe at the "Jackpot Club". They are successful but as they escape, they kill a vigilant police constable. The police and the gangster are now both on the trail of the robbers. It's quite a decent crime thriller; a few twists and turns though also some pretty obvious plot holes. Michael Ripper is quite convincing as the cowardly safe cracker "Lenny"; William Hartnell is also good as ("Supt. Frawley") as is Betty McDowell as the estranged wife who has long since found a new beau. Nothing new, but it's an engaging low-budget Monty Tully effort.
When the average man could afford a football ticket.
adamjohns-4257518 February 2023
Jackpot (1960) -
I only took the opportunity to watch this film, because the 'Talking Pictures' channel had called it a rare and lost film, but perhaps it should have stayed wherever it was.
However, I thought that it would be unjust to turn it off too quickly, as it was only an hour and ten minutes long, but I definitely considered it.
And for such a short film it was surprisingly very slow in places, as if there wasn't enough story to fill even the one hour and ten minutes.
It was also not particularly exciting, the story was just so lacklustre.
At least William Hartnell in his police role of Superintendent Frawley could act, most of the others were pretty wooden.
I'd actually say that it was probably a bit too simplistic and it could easily have been an episode of 'Frawley', a TV series, because it didn't have enough going on to make it worth a film budget or a silver screen, but might have been acceptable as a feature length episode of 'The Bill' (1984-2010) or something similar.
Personally I thought that it should be sent back to where it came from, rare or not. I certainly won't be watching it again.
329.08/1000.
I only took the opportunity to watch this film, because the 'Talking Pictures' channel had called it a rare and lost film, but perhaps it should have stayed wherever it was.
However, I thought that it would be unjust to turn it off too quickly, as it was only an hour and ten minutes long, but I definitely considered it.
And for such a short film it was surprisingly very slow in places, as if there wasn't enough story to fill even the one hour and ten minutes.
It was also not particularly exciting, the story was just so lacklustre.
At least William Hartnell in his police role of Superintendent Frawley could act, most of the others were pretty wooden.
I'd actually say that it was probably a bit too simplistic and it could easily have been an episode of 'Frawley', a TV series, because it didn't have enough going on to make it worth a film budget or a silver screen, but might have been acceptable as a feature length episode of 'The Bill' (1984-2010) or something similar.
Personally I thought that it should be sent back to where it came from, rare or not. I certainly won't be watching it again.
329.08/1000.
The difficulty of staying out of temptation, although you know it will lead you to hell
clanciai25 March 2023
William Hartnelll always made interesting parts in interesting films, so that you could rely on his name to warrant a reward. This is a typical example, although you have to wait for his appearance, in a role out of the ordinary for him, for he is the criminal inspector. The stars are instead the crooks, George Mikell as a rather interesting and fascinating victim of injustice coming for his exoneration, and Eddie Byrne as the real villain, a gangster and leader of mobs who has made a fortune on his rackets, whom George Mikell with a German accent pays a visit to get back what has been stolen from him. Eddie Byrne refuses to cooperate, so there is a conflict, and Mikell robs him of £6000, which Eddie Byrne naturally raises hell by mishandling every person in connection with Mikell, trying to learn where the renegade is. Naturally there is a final settlement between the two, which naturally ends bad for both of them. We never learn what happened to the survivors.
It's an efficient thriller, well written with a top cast all the way, and every supporting part earns some high credits. The music like the drama is hard-boiled and perhaps a little too invasive, and the finale could have been made more efficient. However, as it is, the thriller is efficient enough with many interesting currents, every supporting part being of major importance.
It's an efficient thriller, well written with a top cast all the way, and every supporting part earns some high credits. The music like the drama is hard-boiled and perhaps a little too invasive, and the finale could have been made more efficient. However, as it is, the thriller is efficient enough with many interesting currents, every supporting part being of major importance.
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