Añade un argumento en tu idiomaThriller about a notorious jewel thief and murderer.Thriller about a notorious jewel thief and murderer.Thriller about a notorious jewel thief and murderer.
- Dirección
- Guión
- Reparto principal
- Lord Wexford
- (as R. Stuart Lindsel)
- Dr. Milligan
- (as Ronald Leigh Hunt)
- Superintendent Carter
- (as Alistair Hunter)
- Police Officer in Patrol Car
- (sin acreditar)
- Police Sergeant
- (sin acreditar)
Reseñas destacadas
Ronald Adam was an excellent actor, frequently cast, and at his best, as an authority figure (Prime Minister in "Seven Days to Noon"). Once at least as baddie mastermind. Here though he is a detective, old enough to be his boss's father. The sight of him apologising to his younger boss "Sorry, Sir, I don't know what came over me" is strange one. I am guessing that this was the only in his career.
Graham Stark plays a convincing professional nark.
The film tries too hard to model itself on its American noir predecessors. Comedy band Bonzo Dog once lampooned slavish imitation of the genre: "Have you got a light, Mack?" "No but I've got a dark brown overcoat" The print shown unfortunately is very soft - if the print had been sharp and sparkling and photography seen to better advantage, I think viewers would have a better opinion of it. As it is, it is the cinematic equivalent of a long rainy afternoon, the sound track even sounds like one.
Set mostly in the stately home of newspaper baron Lord Wrexford, in which people spend most of the film pedestrianly lined up by director Maclean Rogers discussing the case; Rogers occasionally showing a modicum of visual imagination when somebody else gets murdered (there's a remarkably graphic shot of a dead man with his eyes open), and in the prologue set in Berlin which begins with a close-up a very young Diana Coupland as a leggy nightclub singer languidly lighting up (less surprising than it at first sounds to those who know she later dubbed Ursula Andress's singing voice in 'Dr.No').
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- CuriosidadesDiana Coupland'd debut.
- Citas
Lord Wexford: [he enters the pub] Whisky, please, Miss, large one. 'Pon my soul, if it isn't young Harry Fitzgerald. Well, how are you my boy?
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Lord Wexford, I'm glad to see you again, Sir.
Lord Wexford: Here, have a drink. Fill that up, whatever it is.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Light ale.
Lord Wexford: Now, where have you been hiding all these years?
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Well, things weren't so good for us after father died so I don't hit the high spots like a used to.
Lord Wexford: Reformed character, eh? Well, here we are,
[he hands Fitzgerald his drink]
Lord Wexford: Well, here's joy.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Cheers!
Lord Wexford: We couldn't have met at a better time. This is going to be quite a night.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Oh, yeah?
Lord Wexford: Yes, this is where Fleet Street shows Scotland Yard what's what.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Oh, really?
Lord Wexford: Yeah, you know what these policemen are - good fellows, conscientious - but solid bone from the neck up.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Mmm... very solid, yes.
Lord Wexford: Look, keep this to yourself but my friends and I are hoping to pull off something that Scotland Yard has failed to do for months... yes, we're going to lay that scoundrel Flannelfoot by the heels.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Well, that's most astonishing.
Lord Wexford: You know I have a sort of feeling that Scotland Yard are going to look pretty silly before the night's finished.
[they both laugh]
policeman: Excuse me, Sergeant, Superintendent Carter would like a word with you on the phone.
Sgt. Fitzgerald: Oh, thanks, Pat. Excuse me, won't you, Sir?
Lord Wexford: Superintendent...? Then who...?
policeman: That's Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald, Sir.
- Créditos adicionalesOpening credits prologue: BERLIN
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(studio: produced at Nettlefold Studios Walton-On-Thames)
- Empresa productora
- Ver más compañías en los créditos en IMDbPro
- Duración
- 1h 14min(74 min)
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1