Ambush in Leopard Street

Only one of the previous reviewers picks up on the fact that this film was made at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, and even he doesn't mention that most of the cast are Irish too (including Marie Conmee, who stood in for Burt Lancaster as the hunt saboteur a couple of years later in 'The List of Adrian Messenger'), along with the locations, which don't look like London.

Despite the tinny sound and frequently mismatched shots, quite a few of the cast (along with cameraman Stephen Dade, not that you'd know it from his work on this) are familiar from more prestigious films, notably Norman Rodway, who a few years later was playing Hotspur for Orson Welles in 'Chimes at Midnight'.

James Kenney in the lead was a regular in British films of the fifties, and is here required to pretend he likes classical music in order to lure lonely spinster Jean Harvey into the gang's orbit, in one of several melancholy subplots that the film throws in the viewers' path.