BLIND SPOT – 1958
This one is an inferior remake of the same producer, Robert S Baker's 1950 thriller, BLACKOUT.
An American Army officer, Robert Mackenzie is laid up in a military hospital waiting for an operation. He has lost his sight due to a head injury. The medical types need to wait for the injury to heal before operating to repair his eyesight. Mackenzie is invited off base to attend a party at a fellow officer's place. He gets a ride but is dropped off at the wrong address.
He enters the house and stumbles over a dead body. The killers, Ronan O'Casey and George Pastell see that Mackenzie is blind, so they give him a belt on the head and dump him down a flight of stairs. Mackenzie wakes up in a hospital with assorted bruises etc. He tells everyone about tripping over a body but no one believes him.
Several months later he has his vision restored. He now spends his time trying to prove his story. He is soon mixed up with diamond smugglers, killers and a crooked aircraft mechanic, Gordon Jackson. Also in the mix are the father, John Le Mesurier and sister, Delphi Lawrence of a supposedly dead pilot.
The film follows Mackenzie as he encounters various roadblocks thrown in his way by the villains. Several large holes in the plot are simply ignored by director Peter Maxwell. Finally at the end we discover that the leader of the smugglers is Michael Caine of all people. Caine gets all of 3 minutes of screen time before he is killed off while trying to escape the Police.
While BLIND SPOT is not a total waste of time, the 1950 original, BLACKOUT, is a better film. This one really suffers from a rushed feel and some real sub par acting.
This one is an inferior remake of the same producer, Robert S Baker's 1950 thriller, BLACKOUT.
An American Army officer, Robert Mackenzie is laid up in a military hospital waiting for an operation. He has lost his sight due to a head injury. The medical types need to wait for the injury to heal before operating to repair his eyesight. Mackenzie is invited off base to attend a party at a fellow officer's place. He gets a ride but is dropped off at the wrong address.
He enters the house and stumbles over a dead body. The killers, Ronan O'Casey and George Pastell see that Mackenzie is blind, so they give him a belt on the head and dump him down a flight of stairs. Mackenzie wakes up in a hospital with assorted bruises etc. He tells everyone about tripping over a body but no one believes him.
Several months later he has his vision restored. He now spends his time trying to prove his story. He is soon mixed up with diamond smugglers, killers and a crooked aircraft mechanic, Gordon Jackson. Also in the mix are the father, John Le Mesurier and sister, Delphi Lawrence of a supposedly dead pilot.
The film follows Mackenzie as he encounters various roadblocks thrown in his way by the villains. Several large holes in the plot are simply ignored by director Peter Maxwell. Finally at the end we discover that the leader of the smugglers is Michael Caine of all people. Caine gets all of 3 minutes of screen time before he is killed off while trying to escape the Police.
While BLIND SPOT is not a total waste of time, the 1950 original, BLACKOUT, is a better film. This one really suffers from a rushed feel and some real sub par acting.