The main problem with this film was its lack of credibility and at times lack of clarity.It takes a long stretch of the imagination to believe that Watling would off and marry Kirkwood after just 6 meetings,without him looking rather more deeply into her background.Little surprise that the marriage breaks down.However when his parents come to see him at the flat that Watling and Kirkwood had lived in,his father gives him letters that Kirkwood had sent to him via the parents.Now why didn't she just write to him direct?Watling then goes down to London to find Kirkwood.She is tied up again with Tafler.He takes her on some sort of job where despite the fact that she cant drive he asks her to drive.When they arrive at the destination Tafler is mortally wounded by the killers arranged by the sinister looking head of the forgers.However we are not told the reason for Tafler being killed.Kirkwood says she doesn't know were she is but manages to get Tafler back to the right address.After all this Watling takes her back but she thinks better of it and throws herself from the train.Maybe at only 76 minutes there was just too much plot and some strands were removed.I think that the location shooting must have taken place in Blackpool.How by the way do you explain that Thora Hird,with her Northern accent has a son,Harry Fowler,who is pure cockney!
Review of Once a Sinner
