This early attempt to depict London as a swinging place is a far cry from what you may expect in a British crime film.
Instead of fog and rain we have our hero driving around in the sunshine in an open convertible.
The characters are all obvious stereotypes and dress the part. The Scotland Yard cops use terms like "beat it!" and "hoosegow" which I doubt were in the original book.
The plot is a mishmash of seemingly unrelated, and quite uninteresting criminal activity, perpetrated by uninteresting one dimensional characters and one waits for the film to really get started.
Our hero, Jack Hawkins is a fine actor, but is wasted in this piece of Anglo-American fluff.
Instead of fog and rain we have our hero driving around in the sunshine in an open convertible.
The characters are all obvious stereotypes and dress the part. The Scotland Yard cops use terms like "beat it!" and "hoosegow" which I doubt were in the original book.
The plot is a mishmash of seemingly unrelated, and quite uninteresting criminal activity, perpetrated by uninteresting one dimensional characters and one waits for the film to really get started.
Our hero, Jack Hawkins is a fine actor, but is wasted in this piece of Anglo-American fluff.