This low-budget British crime film has vicious young working-class hoodlum Terry Collins (David McCallum) mugging an old man, who subsequently dies.
Joe Lucas (Brian Weske) finds out about it and blackmails Terry, threatening to turn him in to the police if he doesn’t give him money.
Terry then plans to rob the safe at the Adam and Eve club with his friend Johnny (Kenneth Cope), who is just back from a spell in prison.
Johnny’s girlfriend is a stripper named Sue (McCallumn’s real-life wife at the time, Jill Ireland), with who Terry is infatuated.
Needless to say, everything goes Pete Tong and Terry ends up killing another man, guaranteeing him a date with the noose.
Much of the film is set in a strip club and much of the first half of the film is full of tame striptease sequences which show no nudity but would nonetheless have been considered quite racy at the time.
Unfortunately, even the gritty Soho setting of late 1950s London doesn’t elevate this film from mediocrity but it’s still a watchable little film on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Released in some markets as Jungle Street Girls.
Terry Collins
David McCallum Johnny
Kenneth Cope Joe Lucas
Brian Weske Sue
Jill Ireland Lucy Bell
Vanda Hudson Mrs Collins
Edna Doré Mr Collins
Thomas Gallagher Sergeant Pelling
Howard Pays Rene
Joy Webster Inspector Bowen
Martin Sterndale Jacko Fielding
John Chandos Mr Rose
Meier Tzelniker Margo
Anne Scott Mr Burns
Alfred Farrell Sid Porter
William Wilde Old Bill
Howard Douglas
Director
Charles Saunders
Video
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Joe Lucas (Brian Weske) finds out about it and blackmails Terry, threatening to turn him in to the police if he doesn’t give him money.
Much of the film is set in a strip club and much of the first half of the film is full of tame striptease sequences which show no nudity but would nonetheless have been considered quite racy at the time.
