The Dark Road

Anybody curious as to what Alfred J. Goulding made apart from the Laurel & Hardy picture 'A Chump at Oxford' should be aware of this potboiler hailing from the days long ago before Hammer traveled to Transylvania when they visited the even more exotic location of London at the time of postwar austerity where Michael Ripper played a zoot-suited, greasy-haired, spiv resembling a crook from a Childrens Film Foundation production and Sydney Bromley before he grew his beard in this cheap copy of 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish' full of limeys trying to sound American which if anything achieves the feat of being even more stilted and unreal than the original.