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Summary

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.

Cast

Louis Hayward

Simon Templar

Naomi Chance

Carol Denby

Sydney Tafler

Max Lennar

Charles Victor

Chief Insp. Claud Teal

Jane Carr

Kate Finch

Harold Lang

Jarvis

William Russell

Keith Merton

Diana Dors

The Blonde in Lennar's Apartment

Fred Johnson

Irish Cassidy

Thomas Gallagher

Hoppy Uniatz

Russell Napier

Col. Stafford

Sam Kydd

Barkley

John Wynn

Man

George Margo

Lennar's Henchman

Ian Fleming

Lord Merton

Ernest Blyth

Party Guest (uncredited)

Erik Chitty

Older gang member (uncredited)

Jack Mandeville

Party Guest (uncredited)

Bunny Seaman

Gambler (uncredited)

Ian Selby

Gambler (uncredited)

John Smart

Merton Party Guest (uncredited)

Harry Van Engel

Safari Club patron (uncredited)

Ian Wilson

Man Waiting for Telephone Booth (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Seymour Friedman

Dialogue

Patrick Jenkins

Screenplay

Allan MacKinnon

Story

Leslie Charteris

Reviews

dennyjt

August 9, 2022

5

Diverting final big screen outing for Simon Templar, fittingly played by the actor who began the series, Louis Hayward. The only one of the series made in England, it is populated by sleazy characters like Sydney Tafler, Harold Lang and Sam Kydd, all involved in the seedy gambling underworld of London. Hayward is a smooth charmer, as adept with his fists as he is with witty asides, as he doggedly gets to the bottom of a girlfriend's death. Although Naomi Chance makes for a charmless leading lady, Diana Dors does offer a sizzling single scene cameo. It took another decade before Roger Moore would revive and exemplify the character in a long-running TV series.