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The most interesting thing about this low budget British B-picture is that the screenplay was by Avengers creator Brian Clemens. The plot is the all-too-familiar tale of a man wrongly accused of murder who has to rely on his own efforts to clear his name. The twist here is that he is sent to jail and faces execution and so is forced to escape to reveal the truth. The cast do an adequate job but the best actor by far, Sandra Dorne, is underused with only two brief scenes. Keiron Moore is totally unconvincing as a bandleader turned crime fighter and it's hard to gain any sympathy for his character who is given too little room to develop.

Mainly studio bound with some clunky sets there are some location shots used during the escape scemes but as these are mostly dome at night with minimal lighting so it's hard to see why they bothered.

All-in-all it's not a bad film but it's badly executed (if you'll pardon the pun). So I wouldn't go out of your way to see it but if it ever turns up on TV it'll pass 70 mins if you've nothing better to do.

.....had a terrific writer/director in Brian Clemens. The Danzigers have acquired a reputation for "bottom of the barrel" procedures in film production - stories of mild mannered stars having to become strong arms for their paltry wages to be paid them were many. When stars realised they were headed to the Danzigers for their next film, depression about where their career was heading set in but with the acquisition of Brian Clemens, suddenly the brother's work didn't seem so shoddy anymore. Over-worked director Ernest Morris was roped into making the noirish "Three Sundays to Live" in between "Sabre of London" and it was a good one.

Jazz musician Frank Martin (Kieran Moore) is approached by sultry singer Ruth Chapman (a very seductive Patricia Dorne) who is desperate for a job but equally afraid of the manager who she has had dealings with before. She asks Frank to take her into the office just to smooth the way

• the next thing he realises is waking up with a gun in his hand and a

dead manager beside him, oh yes and being arrested for murder!! He finds out that the manager was a nasty piece of work with a blackmailing file a mile long and the mysterious Ruth had supposedly died in America!! It is up to his girlfriend to come to the rescue - hiring a top lawyer while doing some snooping around the Flamingo Club on her own!! At first Judy is the pro-active one with Nick languishing in prison but a few days before his execution he stages a daring escape - he has to find that blonde!! Jane Griffith plays his girlfriend, very reminiscent of Glynis Johns - she was terrific in a later crime thriller "The Third Alibi". Always one jump ahead of the police (it seemed to me that the police didn't try very hard to dig deeper into Frank's story) and with the lawyer Judy hired trying to help him while at the same time trying not to get disbarred!!

Ernest Morris spent most of his directing career at the Danzigers but on occasion, like "Three Sundays to Live" could surprise. There is some nice location work and an especially effective court room scene where faces dissolve but no words are spoken. Actor Kieron Moore was a big plus and had a few emotive scenes.