Writer: Vernon Sewell
Composer: Hubert Clifford
Starring: Jimmy Hanley, Lana Morris, Sonia Holm, Jack Allen, Sam Kydd, Pat McGrath, Michael Mellinger, Charles Morgan, Bruce Beeby, Frank Thornton
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Mile-A-Minute Thrills...
Plot: Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
My rating: 7/10
Will I watch it again? Probably not.
This nice little crime thriller is enjoyable enough to give it a go but not so much that it's by no means a classic. The acting is solid and the technical aspects are good but, for as good as the story is in parts, it lacks oomph. That sounds like a dig but it's not. It's a pretty well told story but in the spots you want tension the most, it fails. It's most noticeable in the sequence in the final act when things are most dire for Fred (Hanley) and the chase is on between the good guys and the bad guys. There's a lot of back and forth with the good guys and dispatch. I understand that we need some of that but it goes on and on and on. It doesn't ruin the sequence by any means but, if tightened up, it would've made it more exciting. I take an extraordinary amount of chances on movies and this is an example of why. Movies like this are worth sifting through the garbage for.
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