Review of Terror Street

Dan Duryea comes home to find his wife gone and later murdered, and then he is accused of the murder, although he has been gone for a year. There is a mess of a plot including a nice kettle of fish of gangsters, in which his wife was stupid enough to get involved, for which she had to pay more than she could afford. It's a kind of Francis Durbridge complex of a thriller with many threads to follow all intertwined into some inextricable muddle, in which no one is what he appears to be, like John Chandos as Orville Hart, who shows off as a customs officer in the service of intelligence but is anything but that. Then there are few other innocent ladies as well, as Sister Jenny Miller and Pam Palmer, a friend of the murdered wife, who knows nothing about it and has promised her friend never to tell her husband where she has moved, whereupon she tells him that almost at once. The alien element in this Durbridge mystery set-up is Dan Duryea himself, who goes around threatening everyone and especially all those innocent ladies and eventually also presenting a typical hard-boiled fisticuffs knock-out fight knocking an entire antiquities store into a shambles, in which some London policemen finally break in to stop any further atrocities on his side. It is entertaining and not very serious, and if you know Dan Duryea you know what to expect of him, which he will deliver, and you will be rewarded, if you are a fan of his.