Americans Dan Duryea and Patricia Owens made this truly dreadful little programmer in Britain in 1964 and it's almost certainly the worst thing either of them ever did. The British cast includes one-time James Bond wannabe Terence Cooper and Richard Leech. Cooper's married to Owens. Duryea is the hitman hired by who to kill who and Leech is the friend who witnesses the hit and they are all dreadful; this movie may have the worst acting to be seen in the sixties. The plot itself isn't bad and director Frank Nesbitt makes good use of his London locations, (which is about all you can say in his favour; he only made three films of which this was one), and while it only lasts 69 minutes it feels much, much longer. It is, in fact, the kind of Z-movie that gives Z-movies a bad name. To be avoided at all costs.
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