Unlike "Rag Doll" (featured in "The Best of British Double Feature") the dinky pop songs are pretty intrusive, do not further the narrative and seem to turn up in the most unlikely places ie blaring from a bakery's loud speaker of all places!! It also doesn't help having one of the leads completely unsympathetic - Liz Fraser's career consisted mainly as the dumb blonde in a few of the Carry On films, here she was straight and gritty but it didn't make for a warm characterization. She is Jo, a prostitute who wants to escape the rackets with Mark, the man she is two timing Kleinie with but with Kenneth Griffith playing the club footed hoodlum she has Buckley's chance of making a new life for herself. She goes to the club for one last pick-up but after bringing back young industrial design student Tom (Tony Wickert) to her flat for a shakedown, she realises Kleinie has already been there and murdered Mark in her bedroom.
After this suspenseful start the film dives into the realms of unbelievability - Jo shows her true colours by forcing Tom to dispose of the body, threatening that if he goes to the police she will accuse him of the crime as his drunken antics have left fingerprints and mess all over the flat. He drives out of London but his erratic driving brings him to the attention of the police and causes him to leave the car with the body in the back seat!! Next morning finds him Britain's most wanted man!! Of course he runs straight back to his understanding fiancée Mary - beautiful Nanette Newman brings a breath of fresh air to what was becoming a stale movie. She does question why he went off with the girl from the club and his excuse that he wanted to break free one last time has the old double standard rearing it's ugly head when she queries "what if I wanted some freedom for myself"!!!
Only the initial shot of an unknown man climbing the stairs and the ending, among the bleak dunes, elevate this movie from the run of the mill. Craig Douglas was the singer and at the time was in vogue as a pop idol. He had had a lead role in "It's Trad, Dad" and this was his second and final appearance. Soon to go on to bigger and better things was David Hemmings, looking about 12!!!, who played one of Tom's enthusiastic night club companions.
After this suspenseful start the film dives into the realms of unbelievability - Jo shows her true colours by forcing Tom to dispose of the body, threatening that if he goes to the police she will accuse him of the crime as his drunken antics have left fingerprints and mess all over the flat. He drives out of London but his erratic driving brings him to the attention of the police and causes him to leave the car with the body in the back seat!! Next morning finds him Britain's most wanted man!! Of course he runs straight back to his understanding fiancée Mary - beautiful Nanette Newman brings a breath of fresh air to what was becoming a stale movie. She does question why he went off with the girl from the club and his excuse that he wanted to break free one last time has the old double standard rearing it's ugly head when she queries "what if I wanted some freedom for myself"!!!
Only the initial shot of an unknown man climbing the stairs and the ending, among the bleak dunes, elevate this movie from the run of the mill. Craig Douglas was the singer and at the time was in vogue as a pop idol. He had had a lead role in "It's Trad, Dad" and this was his second and final appearance. Soon to go on to bigger and better things was David Hemmings, looking about 12!!!, who played one of Tom's enthusiastic night club companions.