A night club is used by criminals for fencing their loot. The gang essays one big job, stealing diamonds, but once it involves murder the gang and the fence take the consequences. This is a good B movie. Based on a play that presumably was set in the club but it opens out from there, particularly for the tense robbery sequence. There are many fine scenes, the most striking being the murder of Rudge which has violence, pathos and irony combined.
The notional hero Clem Hayes is played feebly by American import Skip Homeier and his character could have been dispensed with one feels. Thankfully there is a good cast in support including Alfie Bass, Eleanor Summerfield and Patricia Dainton who all shine but even they are eclipsed by Margaret Rawlings as the blind and deaf jewel fence Mrs. Railton . She is quite magnetic when on screen. And of course there is Rummy the dog played by the grandly named Romulus of Welham.
Not a typical B movie but all the better for it.
The notional hero Clem Hayes is played feebly by American import Skip Homeier and his character could have been dispensed with one feels. Thankfully there is a good cast in support including Alfie Bass, Eleanor Summerfield and Patricia Dainton who all shine but even they are eclipsed by Margaret Rawlings as the blind and deaf jewel fence Mrs. Railton . She is quite magnetic when on screen. And of course there is Rummy the dog played by the grandly named Romulus of Welham.
Not a typical B movie but all the better for it.