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Release year: 1958

Storyline

In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.

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Cast

George Nader — Paul Gregory
Maggie Smith — Bridget Howard
Bernard Lee — Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
Geoffrey Keen — Inspector Scott

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Did you know

• Originally cut to one hour and 29 minutes and was the second feature on a double-bill with Torpedo Run (1958). For a DVD release in 2013, it was restored to a running time of one hour and 40 minutes.

• When Maggie Smith finds out that her fiancé has, without telling her, gone to Tangier, she says that that confirms what she suspected. She says, "He had a problem, and I was helping him with it." An audience of the time would understand this to mean homosexuality, as Tangier was notorious as a place for young male prostitutes. Anyone not getting it would get some more help from a newspaper story which is then shown, saying that the fiancé lost his job as a result of a court appearance, the crime for which is not mentioned.

• Donald MacKenzie, the author of the original novel, specialized in works of fiction centering on criminal activity, rather than detective work. He had been a criminal in real-life and had served time in prison. Writer and Director Seth Holt described him as "one of the prison intelligentsia."