Directed by Clive Donner who would go onto make some feature films.
It is an early work from writer Robert Banks Stewart who adapted the story. Steward wrote several Doctor Who stories. He created Bergerac and Shoestring. He also produced the 1991 version of The Darling Buds of May.
This is a run of the mill thriller without too much frills or action.
A pretty girl Barbara Blair arrives at the registry office to get married. Her husband to be is Larry Wilson who is doing time for armed robbery. He has been let out of prison for the wedding as Barbara is pregnant.
It is all a ruse. Larry escapes and there is a Vespa waiting as a getaway vehicle. Seriously a Vespa!
Larry wants to get the money from the robbery from his girlfriend Tina who was looking after it. Only to discover that Tina has long gone with the money.
Inspector Bruce (Harry H Corbett) is in pursuit. He remembers that the now retired Inspector Mandle put Larry behind bars.
Larry tracks down Tina. To his surprise she is now married to Mandle and both are sharing the proceeds of the bank robbery.
There are several twists and turns. Double crosses are a feature of these Edgar Wallace mysteries.
The fun is the provincial Inspector Bruce gets the chance to get one over the smarmy former cop Mandle. It seems there is little love lost between the two.
It was an unusual performance from Harry H Corbett. Known for comedy, he plays it too straight and with an accent that is all over.
To think that some people nowadays claim that Harry H Corbett was once touted as a young British Marlon Brando. Even though they were only born a few months apart.
By 1952 Brando had won a Best Actor Oscar. In 1960 Corbett was doing minor B films. I suspect if it was not for Steptoe and Son, he would had been forgotten.
It is an early work from writer Robert Banks Stewart who adapted the story. Steward wrote several Doctor Who stories. He created Bergerac and Shoestring. He also produced the 1991 version of The Darling Buds of May.
This is a run of the mill thriller without too much frills or action.
A pretty girl Barbara Blair arrives at the registry office to get married. Her husband to be is Larry Wilson who is doing time for armed robbery. He has been let out of prison for the wedding as Barbara is pregnant.
It is all a ruse. Larry escapes and there is a Vespa waiting as a getaway vehicle. Seriously a Vespa!
Larry wants to get the money from the robbery from his girlfriend Tina who was looking after it. Only to discover that Tina has long gone with the money.
Inspector Bruce (Harry H Corbett) is in pursuit. He remembers that the now retired Inspector Mandle put Larry behind bars.
Larry tracks down Tina. To his surprise she is now married to Mandle and both are sharing the proceeds of the bank robbery.
There are several twists and turns. Double crosses are a feature of these Edgar Wallace mysteries.
The fun is the provincial Inspector Bruce gets the chance to get one over the smarmy former cop Mandle. It seems there is little love lost between the two.
It was an unusual performance from Harry H Corbett. Known for comedy, he plays it too straight and with an accent that is all over.
To think that some people nowadays claim that Harry H Corbett was once touted as a young British Marlon Brando. Even though they were only born a few months apart.
By 1952 Brando had won a Best Actor Oscar. In 1960 Corbett was doing minor B films. I suspect if it was not for Steptoe and Son, he would had been forgotten.