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Cedric Gallen and Ben Arkwright are business partners in a successful company. Cedric is also having an affair with his business partner's wife, Anna.

They regularly meet up in a caravan somewhere in the countryside. Cedric's wife Betty is unwilling to divorce him, Ben is the main business partner.

Anna coaxes Cedric to murder both their spouses. He makes it look like a suicide pact of a couple who were having an affair. The couple are gassed to death in the garage. The car engine would not switch off.

Anna and Cedric think they have got away with it. Unfortunately when they met up in the caravan. They were being spied on by Joe Trent and his girlfriend Jean.

Joe suspects that they are a married couple who are up to no good. Just ripe for blackmail while Jean has eyes on Anna's fur coat.

After the death of the spouses, Joe eyes the jackpot knowing Cedric was involved in murder.

However Anna is not going to let a petty blackmailer ruin her life.

This is an effective Edgar Wallace thriller. It really is a case of neverending blackmail and murder. Cedric and Anna never seem to be home free. Then again they are a nasty couple who deserve all they get.

Zena Walker is very good as the manipulative Anna Arkwright. Weak willed Cedric is not match for her.

Nobody seems to have any redeeming features in this B movie.

Ricky Gallen (Basil Henson), the co-director of a firm called Arkwright and Gallen, is having an affair with the strong willed Anna (Zena Walker), the wife of his senior partner Ben Arkwright (Anthony Dawson). However, Gallen's wife, Betty, is also cheating him for Arkwright. In order to gain full control over the company and to get married, Anna persuades the weak willed Gallen to help murder their partners. He jams the ignition on Arkwright's car and persuades Betty to drive him home from a shareholders meeting. Anna, lying in wait for them, locks them in the garage and the pair die from inhaling exhaust fumes. As they planned, the police believe it to be a suicide pact but their seemingly foolproof plan is shattered when small time blackmailer, Joe Trent (Kenneth Cope), demands money having seen Gallen tamper with the car and put two and two together. Anna persuades Gallen to carry out another murder but, unfortunately, this time they get more than they bargained for...

An excellent starting point for those wishing to sample this notable and long running b-pic crime series. It is a good example of the show's superior production values and better casts than one usually associated with British second features. It has a gripping plot which is tightly directed by Robert Lynn and the leading performances are striking. Zena Walker in particular as the strong willed and manipulative Anna who twists the weak willed Gallen around her little finger into committing murder. But, when he finally cracks and attempts to take his own life, she's prepared to cut and run taking all the money with her. In addition, the film is bolstered by a strong feeling for place and period - in this case the early 1960's, made all the more so by its black and white camera-work. The suspense aspect is quite good and there's a nice twist in its tail - again, something badly lacking in many a second feature.