The second of three crime quickies based on novels by Robert Chapman featuring roving reporter Banner; originally played by Peter Reynolds but in this and 'Behind the Headlines' (1956) by Paul Carpenter.
Despite it's fairly light-hearted tone, three people die (including a blackmailer and an eleven year-old witness). Although set in a relatively innocent Britain in which kids could still get into cars with strange men and the tenants in blocks of flats were prepared to display signs stating that they were not in, the underside of supposedly law-abiding post-war Britain is laid bare with its matter of fact depiction of adultery & blackmail (commonly seen in British films of this period on the understanding that it was usually sternly punished). Carpenter's dalliance with married Jill Adams doesn't prevent him from having the gorgeous Diane Hart in tow as his fiancée, though.
Despite it's fairly light-hearted tone, three people die (including a blackmailer and an eleven year-old witness). Although set in a relatively innocent Britain in which kids could still get into cars with strange men and the tenants in blocks of flats were prepared to display signs stating that they were not in, the underside of supposedly law-abiding post-war Britain is laid bare with its matter of fact depiction of adultery & blackmail (commonly seen in British films of this period on the understanding that it was usually sternly punished). Carpenter's dalliance with married Jill Adams doesn't prevent him from having the gorgeous Diane Hart in tow as his fiancée, though.