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wrote: "A competent little thriller, which maintains a good pace and has a fairly simple plot with one or two interesting twists. It has no pretensions to anything further; there is little attempt at characterisation, or to show much of the work of the River Police. The film, however, owes something
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said "The programmer market, currently short of passable supporting filmfare, will find this London-localed melodrama an acceptable filler ... Miss Kirk provides a casting switch to the Anglo-American film efforts Lippert usually releases. Heretofore it has been an American male in England, and
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Judy is a radio operator on an American ship duped into smuggling diamonds in the belief that she is delivering cigarettes. Stopped by Customs she is in further trouble when the man who involved her is found dead in the river. Customs Detective Dan Barker has fallen for Judy and faces a moral
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mixed up with Scotland Yard and British crooks.  ... The plotting is contrived and everything drops too patly into place as the 70 minutes unfold."
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to the tradition of the semi-documentary feature in its use of well-photographed locations in and around the Thames and Dockland."
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rates the film "good", calling it a "well-acted, well-paced, well-set thriller: well above-average."
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dilemma: he must find out whether or not she is guilty, while protecting her from the smugglers.
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It was Guy Green's first film as a director. He said Phyllis Kirk was "very helpful".
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rate the film as "exceptional in its use of docklands locations and pacey action."
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This article related to a British film of the 1950s is a
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Cultural depictions of Metropolitan Police officers
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Guy Green
Rex Rienits
Herman Cohen
Victor Hanbury
John Bentley
Phyllis Kirk
Leonard White
Glyn Houston
Geoffrey Faithfull
Peter Graham Scott
Hubert Clifford
Eros Films
Lippert Pictures
second feature
noir
crime film
Guy Green
John Bentley
Phyllis Kirk
Leonard White
Lippert Pictures
John Bentley
Phyllis Kirk
Robert Ayres
Leonard White
Glyn Houston
Patrick Jordan
Ewan Roberts
David Hurst

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