Premise
A model helps a Scotland Yard detective to hunt down a gang of criminals smuggling Nazi war criminals out of Europe. Cartoonist Jonathan Blair hides secret messages in his comic strips.Cast
* Ralph Michael - Michael Carson * Peggy Evans - Penny Justin * Diana Dors - Molly James * Christopher Lee - Jonathan Blair * Frederick Piper - Policeman * Olaf Pooley - Von Leicher * Ethel Coleridge - Mrs. Hodgson * Sam Costa - Reception Clerk * Dennis Vance - Crawford * Shaun Noble - Pownall * John Lorrell - Fraser * Philip Saville - Police Car Driver * Peter Madren - Adams * Duncan Carse - BoatmanProduction
It was the first film made by Highbury Productions, a company that belonged to the Rank Group of companies. Its aim was to make 50 minute "curtain raisers" for Rank's features. According to Christopher Lee, "only the technicians, working with a grim sense of purpose, were pros in the proper sense. Everybody other function, from direction to walk on parts, was up for grabs." Director Slim Hand was normally a production manager at Ealing.Reception
Bob Monkhouse wrote in his memoirs that when he saw the film in the cinema he thought it was "really bad" but was impressed by Diana Dors. "It was her energy that at first attracted me," he wrote. "Her acting was raw but promising and her vitality made me remember her afterwards as if her part of the screen had been in colour." ''Filmink'' said the "film was the first of many occasions where Dors would outshine the female lead, and make one wonder why she did not get a bigger part." Christopher Lee called it "a truly grisly free for all"... a "Z feature". He says the cast were forced to watch the film being previewed and he found the experience extremely embarrassing. It was the first time he died on screen.Lee p 108Notes
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