A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Direction
Rilla squeezes maximum dread from cramped Soho locations.
Acting
Hartnell's weary cracksman steals every scene he's in.
Cinematography
Black-and-white London never looked seedier or more seductive.
Director
Wolf Rilla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the collapse of the British studio system, it captures a nation anxiously watching its own relevance fade.
William Hartnell shot this between Doctor Who seasons; his weary resignation here eerily mirrors the First Doctor's eventual farewell.
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