I confess I fell asleep halfway through and missed some of the plot. Three guys run a used-car dealership, but they've done up the flat that's built onto the garage like a seedy nightclub, with rattan bar stools and jazz on the record-player.
Shirley Eaton is the love interest, and as in many films of the time she looks completely unlike a secretary in a garage. In fact she looks like a pin-up all the time, and dresses up to go out as if she's headed for the Ritz. She also throws herself into cheesecake poses which will look good in the stills.
Tom Drake is the only honest member of the syndicate. The others are more interested in robbing a safe with deadpan William Hartnell (excellent). The loot ends up in a holdall, and the good guy ends up fighting with the bad guy on the Thames foreshore. SURELY the bag is going to fly open and let the notes float off towards Teddington - or the Estuary, depending which way the tide is flowing.
Actually when the crook and Shirley (who he's kidnapped) arrive at the boathouse there is a high tide of the kind that were more frequent before the Thames Barrier was built. Ten minutes later when Tom Drake and then the cops arrive, it has fallen enough to reveal quite a lot of beach.
Unusually, the bag stays shut.
Shirley Eaton is the love interest, and as in many films of the time she looks completely unlike a secretary in a garage. In fact she looks like a pin-up all the time, and dresses up to go out as if she's headed for the Ritz. She also throws herself into cheesecake poses which will look good in the stills.
Tom Drake is the only honest member of the syndicate. The others are more interested in robbing a safe with deadpan William Hartnell (excellent). The loot ends up in a holdall, and the good guy ends up fighting with the bad guy on the Thames foreshore. SURELY the bag is going to fly open and let the notes float off towards Teddington - or the Estuary, depending which way the tide is flowing.
Actually when the crook and Shirley (who he's kidnapped) arrive at the boathouse there is a high tide of the kind that were more frequent before the Thames Barrier was built. Ten minutes later when Tom Drake and then the cops arrive, it has fallen enough to reveal quite a lot of beach.
Unusually, the bag stays shut.