This intense British crime drama deals with a blackmailer Sydney Tafler who by chance finds the wallet of Susan Shaw and utilizes the presence of an incriminating letter to blackmail her and her boyfriend Colin Tapley, increasing the financial demand every time they talk. But Tapley doesn't take being a victim of a blackmailer lightly, and that results in a fatality, culminating in a Chase sequence over a bridge with a speeding train coming, witnessed by inspector Ronald Howard and Tafler's girlfriend, Melissa Stribling, taking a film into full steam ahead as it reaches a dramatic conclusion.
This film is as greedy as they come, dealing with the bent Mind of a petty criminal and how they operate, and what happens when they are trapped like a rabid dog. The photography is excellent, utilizing locations in a way that only British filmmakers could do at the time which keeps the audience intrigued. The performances are excellent although the dialogue and sometimes a bit weird in a low-down criminal sort of way. But this really showed what could be done with independent filmmakers and a great screenplay and a great production team behind the scenes. The ending certainly is nail biting, with a few great lines by one of the characters that pretty much sums up the whole mood of the film.
This film is as greedy as they come, dealing with the bent Mind of a petty criminal and how they operate, and what happens when they are trapped like a rabid dog. The photography is excellent, utilizing locations in a way that only British filmmakers could do at the time which keeps the audience intrigued. The performances are excellent although the dialogue and sometimes a bit weird in a low-down criminal sort of way. But this really showed what could be done with independent filmmakers and a great screenplay and a great production team behind the scenes. The ending certainly is nail biting, with a few great lines by one of the characters that pretty much sums up the whole mood of the film.