This B/C grade thriller is hampered from the start by being obviously a product of an Irish studio, and yet insists on trying to convince us that the action takes place in the UK., with allusions to the big city - ie London- and with the police (not Garda) conversing in received English. This is a strange anomaly, as the beautiful Irish locations could've been used to greater effect.
The plot is a confection of murder, double cross, desire and greed, yet with all those ingredients still fails to hit the spot . Maybe it's because Peter Reynolds always appears just too darned nice to be a genuinely bad guy; also he appears to be burdened with an ill fitting hairpiece in this one to add to our sympathies (maybe it's just the camera angles). Noelle Middleton is certainly an unusual leading lady who, as one Reviewer has noted, transforms from Fusty to Foxy, with one deft removal of her unflattering specs...