Farnham Baxter
- Nick Allen
- (as Farnaham Baxter)
Frank Forsyth
- Detective
- (as Frank Forsythe)
Rory MacDermot
- P. C. Davidson
- (as Rory McDermott)
Fred Davis
- Nightclub Dancer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLead actor "Charles Stuart" was actually a notorious jewel thief called Stanley Thurston, causing the film to be banned by some local authorities until changes to the script had been made.
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A Failed Experiment
I think the film makers thought they had an interesting way to frame a story here: set it as a reporter pitching a feature to his editor, with frequent voice-overs, discussing the motivations of the lead character, a minor crook who rises from car theft to jewel thief, with frequent spells in prison, punctuated by escape. Unfortunately, it winds up telling the audience, rather than showing them what is going on, and that rather telegraphically.
Director Alf Goulding -- given his full first name of Alfred to celebrate his rise from slapstick comedy, no doubt -- offers a couple of comedy bits to eke out the film's meager length, but between the obvious cheapness of the sets and the mediocre talent of the actors, there isn't much worthwhile. It's possible that the camera-work was better than I could judge, but the print I saw was too dark to reveal much detail.
Director Alf Goulding -- given his full first name of Alfred to celebrate his rise from slapstick comedy, no doubt -- offers a couple of comedy bits to eke out the film's meager length, but between the obvious cheapness of the sets and the mediocre talent of the actors, there isn't much worthwhile. It's possible that the camera-work was better than I could judge, but the print I saw was too dark to reveal much detail.
helpful•10
- boblipton
- Nov 21, 2017
Details
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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