Vengeance was a short directed by Shani Grewal. Eight years later he would turn it into a feature length film called Double X: The Name of the Game starring Norman Wisdom. It was widely panned.
Vengeance has American tourist Greg arriving in Wales on a ferry from Ireland. At a hotel he strikes a conversation with an initially hesitant elderly gentleman. He gives the name of Peter Carmody which is straight out of a newspaper headline that he is reading.
Carmody nearly gets blown up when his car explodes. Greg helps him out and departs from the hotel with him. Over the course of the next few hours, Carmody talks of his gambling problems and how he embezzled money from his bosses who are gangsters. Now he is on the run but he has an incriminating letter.
The short is set on a backdrop of IRA bombings. It is a question of can Carmody trust Greg?
There is another wonderful performance from Edward Hardwicke as Carmody. A man who knows he has made a fatal mistake. It is very atmospherically shot. However as a thriller it does not work, the story and twist is too obvious.
Vengeance has American tourist Greg arriving in Wales on a ferry from Ireland. At a hotel he strikes a conversation with an initially hesitant elderly gentleman. He gives the name of Peter Carmody which is straight out of a newspaper headline that he is reading.
Carmody nearly gets blown up when his car explodes. Greg helps him out and departs from the hotel with him. Over the course of the next few hours, Carmody talks of his gambling problems and how he embezzled money from his bosses who are gangsters. Now he is on the run but he has an incriminating letter.
The short is set on a backdrop of IRA bombings. It is a question of can Carmody trust Greg?
There is another wonderful performance from Edward Hardwicke as Carmody. A man who knows he has made a fatal mistake. It is very atmospherically shot. However as a thriller it does not work, the story and twist is too obvious.
