A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial" in the crypt of a ruined church.
Acting
Abraham Sofaer's weary dignity anchors the entire operation.
Production
Bomb-damaged church location feels hauntingly authentic.
Writing
Snappy dialogue between misfits with zero patience for authority.
Director
John Baxter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joan Collins was 19 here, five years before her Hollywood breakthrough in Land of the Pharaohs.
Filmed amid actual London bomb sites, the locations silently testify to the recent war that shaped these characters' moral flexibility.
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