6.5
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Terence Morgan
Dominic Colpoys-Owen
Yoko Tani
Fina (Seraphina) Yokami
John Crawford
Joe Preedy
Mai Zetterling
Christine Preedy
William Hartnell
Colonel
Dennis Price
Edward
Ann Lynn
Mouse
Charles Kay
Toddy
Doug Robinson
Albert
Gillian Maude
Bride's Mother
Trevor Reid
Bride's Father
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Police Sergeant
Alan Rolfe
Private Detective
Tony Hawes
Fop
Judy Huxtable
Bride
Director
Wolf Rilla
Screenplay, Story
Leigh Vance
April 4, 2022
6
Wolf Villa has done quite a reasonable job with this story of a disparate gang of miscreants who all decide to relieve an embassy safe of £100,000. "Dominic" (Terence Morgan) is the brains behind the motley alliance who are there because they need to raise cash, fund an expensive wife or just because they like the thrill. It takes far too long to get going. Too much time is sent on the meandering love lives with the gullible "Fina" (Yôko Tani) and Mai Zetterling ("Christine") fanning the flames. Dennis Price features sparingly as the gambling kingpin "Edward" and William Hartnell really does demonstrate well how wooden an actor he is as the safecracking "Colonel". Once we get over the hurdles of the first half hour, though, the pace picks up and the last twenty minutes or so make for quite a decently tense crime story with an ending that I actually quite liked. Not a great film, but a perfectly watchable feature for Saturday afternoon cinema.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00