Director: ROBERT S. BAKER. Screenplay: Kenneth Hales, Norman Hudis. Based on a novel by Manning O'Brine. Photography: Monty Berman. Film editor: Henry Richardson. Music director: Stanley Black. Blues by Hugo Bird and James Lubbock. Camera operator: Desmond Dickinson. Art director: John Stoll. Wardrobe: Jean Fairnel. Set continuity: Gladys Reeve. Production manager: Roger Marley. Sound recording: W.H. Lindop. Producers: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman. A Mid-Century Production.
Released in the U.K. by Eros (July, 1956), in the U.S. by Astor (June, 1956). 7,258 feet. 80 minutes. Cut to 70 minutes in the U.S.A.
COMMENT: A slackly directed British "B" thriller, boasting a complicated and extremely unlikely plot. Although filmed on some potentially interesting actual locations, they are not very dramatically employed. Lovely Lois Maxwell proves the brightest feature of this otherwise rather dull film.
OTHER VIEWS: Where do old cowboy stars go when they get too old for the saddle? The rodeo circuit? The circus? Film fairs? Heaven? Or Walton-on-Thames, the home of Eros? Sample dialogue: ROD: I can't make up my mind about you. You could be on the level. LOIS: I could be. ROD: All right, I'll gamble.
Released in the U.K. by Eros (July, 1956), in the U.S. by Astor (June, 1956). 7,258 feet. 80 minutes. Cut to 70 minutes in the U.S.A.
COMMENT: A slackly directed British "B" thriller, boasting a complicated and extremely unlikely plot. Although filmed on some potentially interesting actual locations, they are not very dramatically employed. Lovely Lois Maxwell proves the brightest feature of this otherwise rather dull film.
OTHER VIEWS: Where do old cowboy stars go when they get too old for the saddle? The rodeo circuit? The circus? Film fairs? Heaven? Or Walton-on-Thames, the home of Eros? Sample dialogue: ROD: I can't make up my mind about you. You could be on the level. LOIS: I could be. ROD: All right, I'll gamble.