Little Candy Pibworth crosses the street when she shouldn't and is struck by a truck. At the hospital Dr. Colin Tapley tells her mother, Zena Walker, that he has to operate immediately. Miss Pibworth, however, has a very rare blood type. There's none in the banks, and only three listed donors. So Inspector Glyn Houston of the CID is the man to track them down and see if they'll save a little girl's life, while her estranged father, Dermot Walsh, actually talks to Miss Walker.
It's a remake of Emergency Call (1952). It's impossible to comment on this without comparing it to the original's, which I found better because of the stories of the three potential donors; here, they're all a bit melodramatic, although there's no denying that Patrick Jordan makes a fine, whiny, anti-social thug facing the gallows. You can slot any number of characters and stories among the potential donors, which is almost certainly why they re-used the format. The result here is a decent time-waster.
It's a remake of Emergency Call (1952). It's impossible to comment on this without comparing it to the original's, which I found better because of the stories of the three potential donors; here, they're all a bit melodramatic, although there's no denying that Patrick Jordan makes a fine, whiny, anti-social thug facing the gallows. You can slot any number of characters and stories among the potential donors, which is almost certainly why they re-used the format. The result here is a decent time-waster.