A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.
John Adams
- Police Constable
- (uncredited)
Anne Blake
- Mrs. Wilson
- (uncredited)
Donald Bradley
- Youth in Turntable
- (uncredited)
Fanny Carby
- Woman with Pram
- (uncredited)
Peggy Ann Clifford
- Mrs. Wilson's Neighbour
- (uncredited)
Alan Coleshill
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Wendy Craig
- Receptionist
- (uncredited)
David de Keyser
- Ticket Clerk
- (uncredited)
Jill Dixon
- Joan
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFeature directorial debut of Clive Donner.
- GoofsMolly folds the newspaper with the robbery headlines up and puts it inside her handbag, but when Freddie enters the kitchen the folded newspaper is on top of her handbag.
- Quotes
Harry: You're late.
Mike Wilson: Yes, I missed the bus this morning.
Harry: You missed the bus years ago.
- SoundtracksBut You
By Ray Martin (as Lester Powell) and Jack Fishman (as Danny Maule)
Sung by Jimmy Parkinson
Accompaniment directed by Eric Jupp (uncredited)
on a Columbia Record
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The nature of pure cinema
Despite its b-film status, this is really quite a good film. It works well as a traditional caper movie, with fine scenes of suspense, but it stands out especially for the cinematic tension created between Belinda Lee's character and the little boy, to me as fine an example of pure cinema as I've seen, the kind of thing one might otherwise find in an Ingmar Bergman movie. This is a paradigm example of suspense, as we wonder if the Lee's character can make psychological contact with the boy, as the boy moves further apart from her. The bland close-ups on the boy work for the film, since we can never read what is going on in his mind as we wait to see if he will reconcile with the woman or not. Also noteworthy is the ambivalent ending, when one might otherwise expect a more conventional reunion, as far as I can go without revealing a spoiler.
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- Jan 20, 2021
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Am Rande der Unterwelt
- Filming locations
- Tom Thumb's Arch underline railway bridge, Mostyn Grove, Bow East, London, England, UK(The place where Molly meets Gerry to tell him she has failed to recover the stolen diamonds from Freddie Haywood. Ordell Road, filmed on a summer evening, can be seen during their conversation as well as electric trains on the Shenfield line.)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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