Confused postwar drama-come-comedy about an idiotic young man who gets involved in car theft and murder.
Richard Attenborough plays a complete piker as the young man in a way that becomes really grating. Alastair Sim plays a dodgy geezer playing up to the landlady, in his usual creepy way but funny and appealing.
The first part of the film is serious and then a last unnecessary half-hour is filled with a comic petition to reprieve the young man from the gallows (?).
The film seems to be quite well made but the plot seems to look like it was made up of two different stories.
Richard Attenborough plays a complete piker as the young man in a way that becomes really grating. Alastair Sim plays a dodgy geezer playing up to the landlady, in his usual creepy way but funny and appealing.
The first part of the film is serious and then a last unnecessary half-hour is filled with a comic petition to reprieve the young man from the gallows (?).
The film seems to be quite well made but the plot seems to look like it was made up of two different stories.