A fascinating relic, with a cool title, of a grim postwar Britain rife with brutish criminality (with an item about Mahatma Gandhi among the news on the radio) boasting a number of actors (John Harvey, Patrick Westwood) who continued to appear in smaller parts in bigger films, plus - incredibly - 'Agony's Maria Charles as a big-haired gangster's moll.
The cheap sets and unimaginative staging simply emphasise the nihilistic despair of this gang of losers in a manner that anticipates the equally claustrophobic 'Reservoir Dogs'.
The cheap sets and unimaginative staging simply emphasise the nihilistic despair of this gang of losers in a manner that anticipates the equally claustrophobic 'Reservoir Dogs'.