Scotland Yard's Inspector Harris (played by Glyn Houston) races against time to track down donors for a little girl called Marion who is of a rare blood type and needs a transfusion to survive after being involved in a road accident. The trouble is the potential donors are either difficult to trace or reluctant to help. They include star footballer Tommy Day (played by Edward Ogden) whose manager fails to inform him about it since he is more worried about his star's career. Jimmy Regan (played by Patrick Jordan) is a murderer on death row who will only agree to give blood if he is granted a reprieve. Meanwhile, Professor Graham (played by Garard Waters), is an atomic scientist who has been betraying secrets to foreign spies and goes on the run because he thinks Harris is on to him. Meanwhile, Marion's parents John (played by Dermot Walsh) and Joan (played by Zena Walker), who have been separated, try to reconcile their marriage...
British 'B'-pic studio Butcher's Film Distributors remade their own 1952 'A'-feature Emergency Call as a second feature. It's efficient enough and there are plenty of familiar supporting players to look out for - the sort whom you recognise but can't put a name to. Of the leads, Glyn Houston shines as the determined Yard man while Dermot Walsh and Zena Walker provide the emotional tug has the separated parents who are drawn back together as a result of their little daughter's accident. The script allows for some glorious irony like when the atomic scientist flees as a result of the police wanting to see him thinking they have discovered the fact that he is a double agent. However, the purpose of their visit was to ask him to give blood and, when he finds this out, he realises that he has drawn attention to himself quite unnecessarily. On top of that his fellow agents believed him to be a liability and decided to kill him. Veteran 'B'-picture director Francis Searle does a very competent job, although his direction isn't up to Lewis Gilbert's standard in the original, while the handful of outer London locations add flavour under Ken Hodges' atmospheric black and white lighting.
British 'B'-pic studio Butcher's Film Distributors remade their own 1952 'A'-feature Emergency Call as a second feature. It's efficient enough and there are plenty of familiar supporting players to look out for - the sort whom you recognise but can't put a name to. Of the leads, Glyn Houston shines as the determined Yard man while Dermot Walsh and Zena Walker provide the emotional tug has the separated parents who are drawn back together as a result of their little daughter's accident. The script allows for some glorious irony like when the atomic scientist flees as a result of the police wanting to see him thinking they have discovered the fact that he is a double agent. However, the purpose of their visit was to ask him to give blood and, when he finds this out, he realises that he has drawn attention to himself quite unnecessarily. On top of that his fellow agents believed him to be a liability and decided to kill him. Veteran 'B'-picture director Francis Searle does a very competent job, although his direction isn't up to Lewis Gilbert's standard in the original, while the handful of outer London locations add flavour under Ken Hodges' atmospheric black and white lighting.