This cheapie British crime melodrama tears a lively strip from the Police Gazette.
Vicious “undesirable alien” Carl Stock (George Mikell) has been deported back to Germany following a jail sentence but returns to England and sets the ball rolling by rifling the safe at the Jackpot Club in London with the help of hapless cafe proprietor and safe cracker Lenny Lane (Michael Ripper) and stealing £6,000, killing a policeman in the process.
The police and the crooked, tough owner of the Jackpot Club, Sam Hare (Eddie Byrne), want to track down Stock, but for very different reasons.
Meanwhile, Stock intimidates his innocent wife, Kay (Betty McDowall), who is now a successful model and no longer loves him.
Superintendent Frawley (William Hartnell, soon to become famous as Doctor Who) – the Scotland Yard man in charge of the case – quickly takes control, and detectives are determined to bring Stock to justice before Hare – who wants to exact his own revenge for the robbery – can get his hands on the German.
In next to no time, the two crooks are cornered in Arsenal Stadium during a floodlit football match, attempting to eliminate each other.
It’s a tightly woven tale with realistic staging and a salutary climax.
Supt. Frawley
William Hartnell Kay Stock
Betty McDowall Sam Hare
Eddie Byrne Carl Stock
George Mikell Lenny Lane
Michael Ripper Sgt. Jacks
Victor Brooks Peter
Tim Turner Dinty
Ivan Craig George
Howard Lang Sally
Sylvia Davies Desk Sergeant
Frank Forsyth Taffy
Brian Phelan
Director
Montgomery Tully
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