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After he accidentally causes the death of his partner, trapeze artist Bill Ryan leaves the circus and sinks into an alcoholic mire of self-pity. Things look up when elegant Jackie Field takes interest in Bill, but she hides a sinister motive. Ignoring Kitty, the shopgirl who adores him, Bill falls for Jackie and joins her gang of thieves, but the daring stunt she has him perform may lead to disaster.
Release : | 1959 |
Rating : | 4 |
Studio : | Danziger Productions Ltd., |
Crew : | Director, Writer, |
Cast : | Richard Wyler Lisa Daniely Leigh Madison Michael Peake Nora Gordon |
Genre : | Thriller Crime |
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The acting in this movie is really good.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
The idea is certainly novel, but the plot, dialogue and characters are not. In fact, the story is full of holes and wild implausibilities, especially in the last five minutes when the long-awaited climax at last transpires. Even here, the action is rather tame; but elsewhere there is no action at all, just seemingly endless talk. On the credit side of the ledger, however, the girls (Lisa Daniely as the femme fatale, and Leigh Madison as the official heroine) are fairly attractive. But on the other hand, Godfrey Grayson's relentlessly routine direction stacks up as a distinct negative. Production values also register as strictly minor. The sets are cramped and the writers have mustered all the usual "B"-grade devices of filling-in-time. The movie's length could come down to 20 minutes with ease. Colin Tapley is a security guard. Nora Gordon is the landlady, Mrs Barlow. Production manager: John Draper. Assistant director: Geoffrey Helman. Sound editor: John Smith. Howell was the sound supervisor.
Wow, what a good surprise this time again!! OK this is not a masterpiece, but not a lousy film either. The screenplay is from the great Brian Clemens, please...The story of an ex circus acrobat, now a TV repairman, who falls in love, a real trap, with a beautiful brunette, a perfect "femme fatale", who pushes him in a daring heist. A robbery where there must be a good air artist stunt to switch an alarm system off. But the lead female character of the movie is the accomplice of a real killer, the master thief of the heist...Unfortunately, the following is foreseeable. No surprise in the ending. But the 65mn of this movie are not long at all to spend. Not too much talk.Try it.