DEADFALL is one of those late 1960s films that seems a little unsure of itself. It's meant to be a heist film but there's too much character baggage getting in the way and no amount of suspense at all, so it's certainly not a thriller. The presence of Michael Caine as the film's lead means that he spends most of the time romancing ladies like Nanette Newman, making this a sub-ALFIE type picture. There are some elements of sex and perversion in the story but these only seem to existent due to the loosening of censorship during the era. Certainly it's a film in which the actors are wasted, not least poor old Caine himself, making a dud before the decade was out.
Review of Deadfall
