56 minutes of pure noir panic — can a good man outrun his own fingerprints?
An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before the gone-straight baddie finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in a major jewelry theft.
Acting
Ronald Howard's sweaty desperation as a man trapped by politeness.
Direction
Ramsey Herrington squeezes maximum claustrophobia from minimal runtime.
Director
Ramsey Herrington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'quota quickie' tradition — cheap British films made to satisfy legal requirements for domestic cinema content, often punchier than their budgets suggest.
Ronald Howard was Leslie Howard's son; he spent the 1950s and 60s in exactly this kind of efficient noir programmer before finding late-career TV fame as Sherlock Holmes.
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