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Battersea café, or the teenagers' return call in Belgravia. Adam Faith likeably goes through the part of injured innocent; and the film tries – though how tentatively and ham-handedly – to show that it is with it by a night car ride,
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Harry's execution, Dirty Neck informs Anne that something odd is happening at Taplow's warehouse. Anne goes there to investigate and is imprisoned by
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Harry's friends locate the courting couple, and they and Anne confront the couple in the park. The woman is ready to co-operate, but the man panics and in trying to get away crashes into a tree, killing himself and severely injuring his girlfriend, who then makes a useless statement. On the eve of
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has been done up contemporary – which roughly means that the nightclub of a few years ago has been replaced by guitars and espresso in
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Anne believes Harry's story and, having failed to persuade
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car to impress a girl, but when she went off with another boy, Harry decided to take the car for a spin before dumping it. Swerving to avoid another car, he burst a tyre, but could not find any tools in the boot to change the wheel. A policeman on a bicycle stopped to help. At the policeman's
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Terence driving the lorry full of arms and both men are fatally shot, but Taplow manages to give police a deathbed statement clearing Harry. Harry is released from prison, and rejoins his mates at the cafe.
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