Arthur Young's last film role is also one of his showiest; while Sandra Dorne and Eric Pohlmann are both cast against type as respectively a sleuthing Good Girl (who both Patrick Holt & Wayne Morris hit on with very contrasting degrees of success) and an honest upholder of the law (that he didn't have his usual 'foreign' moustache was probably a clue in Pohlmann's case); while the true identities of the villains are in one case quite interesting, but in the case of the latter an absolutely absurd attempt at a final 'twist'.
The gang themselves sure are a mean-looking bunch, but most of the film consists of anodyne chatter about their activities rather than actually showing it; while the unnecessary violence they carry out during one of the few jobs that we do see is an old narrative trick to turn larceny into a capital offence, and thus raise the stakes (not that anyone actually survives to face the noose).
The gang themselves sure are a mean-looking bunch, but most of the film consists of anodyne chatter about their activities rather than actually showing it; while the unnecessary violence they carry out during one of the few jobs that we do see is an old narrative trick to turn larceny into a capital offence, and thus raise the stakes (not that anyone actually survives to face the noose).