This low-rent British thriller by AR Rawlinson was co-produced by Francis Searle and Ronnie Liles for Butchers Films at Twickenham, with Searle also directing.
Suave Eddie Wallis (Peter Reynolds) heads a safe-breaking gang with the complicity of his mother (Avice Landon), who owns a newsagent’s shop where the gang’s meetings are held.
Eddie is commissioned by art dealer Martinetti (André Mikhelson) to steal jewels from the safe of Barrington’s Fine Art auction house. But Eddie’s kid brother Ron (David Gregory) – the safe-cracking expert – is in prison. So, getting him out of jail becomes necessary so the job can be done.
The gang successfully get Ron out, along with another gang member named Wally (Robert Fyfe), but their plans go wrong. Another prisoner – Len Rogerson (David Kernan) – escapes with him. He claims he was framed for somebody else’s crime, and his teenage girlfriend Carol Marshall (Carol White) is pregnant with his child.
Eddie hides the escapees in a private nursing home (St Vernon’s) run by Dr Cambus (Geoffrey Hibbert) – a fake doctor being blackmailed by the Wallis family – but they are in danger of being given away by lovesick Len, who keeps trying to escape to see Carol.
Len’s eagerness to get a message to Carol leads the police straight to St Vernon’s, and although Ron and Wally manage to clear out before the police arrive (taking a kidnapped Carol with them), Len leads the coppers to Barrington’s, where the Wallis crew has blown the safe and is within a whisker of getting away with it all.
Even Mrs Wallis is nabbed after she drops in on the workers.
Peter Reynolds moved to Australia in 1969, where his career gained a second wind. He and his little dog died, aged 53, in a fire in his flat in Sydney on 22 April 1975. The fire was caused by Reynolds smoking in bed.
Eddie Wallis
Peter Reynolds Mrs Wallis
Avice Landon Len Rogerson
David Kernan Carol Marshall
Carol White Slim
John Blythe Ron Wallis
David Gregory Page
Robert Desmond John
Stewart Guidotti Dr Cambus
Geoffrey Hibbert Wally
Robert Fyfe Inspector Brand
Carl Bernard Mrs Harris
Katharine Page Mr Marshall
Sidney Vivian Mrs Marshall
Marianne Stone Barrington
Ivor Dean Martinetti
André Mikhelson Jonah
Middleton Woods Auctioneer
Reginald Hearne Det. Sgt. Johnson
Edward Ogden Shirley
Laurie Leigh Hazel
Angela Ramsden
The gang successfully get Ron out, along with another gang member named Wally (Robert Fyfe), but their plans go wrong. Another prisoner – Len Rogerson (David Kernan) – escapes with him. He claims he was framed for somebody else’s crime, and his teenage girlfriend Carol Marshall (Carol White) is pregnant with his child.
