**SPOILERS**British crime drama involving an ex-convict taxi driver who gets involved with this gang of bank robbers headed by someone in the film known only as "The Governor".
It's not that paroled safe cracker Fred Martin wanted to go back to his former life of crime. The fact is that Fred was blackmailed to become a criminal by "The Governor" who sent his employer cab garage owner MacLaren a letter telling him of Fred's previous, behind bars, address. Despite Maclaren being very sympathetic to Fred's problems as an ex-con looking to go straight he plays along with "The Governor" by giving into his blackmail and having Fred fired. It's then that Fred with no jobs, because of his past criminal record, available to him is forced to go back to his old job as a safe-cracker in "The Govenor's" bank robbing gang. What "The Govenor" doesn't know is that Fred, together with MacLaren, are working with the police to put his organization out of business and behind bars.
The irony of all this is that Fred problems really started when he earlier tried to run down a pair of fleeing robbery suspects with his cab by members of "The Governor's" gang. Now with him becoming a part of the gang's operations Fred's looked upon as a narc, or spy, for the police. This all has Fred secretly set up, by being given false information, by "The Governor" to see if he'll contact the cops before the gangs next planned heist. A trap that the naive Fred, in totally underestimating those he's working for, falls for like a ton of bricks!
Heart-stopping final with Fred's cover being blown as he's beaten and locked inside a freezer at "The Govenor's" secret hideout-or front-an ice cream factory on the London docks. It's with the help of his boss MacLaren together with his girlfriend taxi radio dispatcher Myra together with his fellow cabbies, not to mention the London Police, that Fred is saved from freezing to death, and being turned into a human popsicle, just in the nick of time.
Coming to Fred's rescue his fellow cab drivers not only stop "The Govenor" and his gang from avoiding the long arm of the law but have them both creamed and sugar coated as well. By dozens of 50 pound sacks of raw sugar dumped on them by Fred's fellow cab drivers causing them to become discombobulated and too, by suffering from a sever case of diabetic shock syndrome, numb to make their escape possible.
It's not that paroled safe cracker Fred Martin wanted to go back to his former life of crime. The fact is that Fred was blackmailed to become a criminal by "The Governor" who sent his employer cab garage owner MacLaren a letter telling him of Fred's previous, behind bars, address. Despite Maclaren being very sympathetic to Fred's problems as an ex-con looking to go straight he plays along with "The Governor" by giving into his blackmail and having Fred fired. It's then that Fred with no jobs, because of his past criminal record, available to him is forced to go back to his old job as a safe-cracker in "The Govenor's" bank robbing gang. What "The Govenor" doesn't know is that Fred, together with MacLaren, are working with the police to put his organization out of business and behind bars.
The irony of all this is that Fred problems really started when he earlier tried to run down a pair of fleeing robbery suspects with his cab by members of "The Governor's" gang. Now with him becoming a part of the gang's operations Fred's looked upon as a narc, or spy, for the police. This all has Fred secretly set up, by being given false information, by "The Governor" to see if he'll contact the cops before the gangs next planned heist. A trap that the naive Fred, in totally underestimating those he's working for, falls for like a ton of bricks!
Heart-stopping final with Fred's cover being blown as he's beaten and locked inside a freezer at "The Govenor's" secret hideout-or front-an ice cream factory on the London docks. It's with the help of his boss MacLaren together with his girlfriend taxi radio dispatcher Myra together with his fellow cabbies, not to mention the London Police, that Fred is saved from freezing to death, and being turned into a human popsicle, just in the nick of time.
Coming to Fred's rescue his fellow cab drivers not only stop "The Govenor" and his gang from avoiding the long arm of the law but have them both creamed and sugar coated as well. By dozens of 50 pound sacks of raw sugar dumped on them by Fred's fellow cab drivers causing them to become discombobulated and too, by suffering from a sever case of diabetic shock syndrome, numb to make their escape possible.