A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
Acting
Glynis Johns makes naivety dangerously compelling.
Direction
Parry squeezes maximum tension from minimal sets.
Director
Gordon Parry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Glynis Johns recorded the original 'Sister Suffragette' in Mary Poppins fifteen years later—quite the range from doomed ingénue.
Released during Britain's post-war austerity, the film's cramped gambling dens mirrored real London's underground economy.
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