One of the earliest films of Lawrence Harvey and Joan Collins makes a big impact on the screen. Add good performance by Richard Basehart, Gloria Grahame, Stanley Baker, and John Ireland, and you have a star-studded cast in a rather ordinary crime caper. But it is not the crime that is the highlight of the film, it is the delirious over the top performance by Harvey that marks him as an actor to be watched in the future after 1954. The story of three men down on their luck taking direction from a rich, spoiled aristocrat (are there any other kind?) is a relatively unlikely scenario, but one that the audience might find very convenient for a good story. And this one is a good story.
Review of The Good Die Young
