Prismark10 This is a 1960s B movie short. Its a poor film which starts interestingly enough but quickly loses impact.It is low budget, inspires to be some type of American gangster flick and has some straightforward performances, s dicey script with more holes than a colander.It is rather surprising to see Ballard Berkeley better known as the Major in Fawlty Towers as a younger and a rather straight talking newspaper editor.Conrad Phillips plays Moir, an experienced crime reporter who has been pursuing a gangster known as the Duke. The Duke in retaliation fits him up for a train robbery and the police arrest him and he is sentenced to two years in jail. In jail Moir plots his revenge.I have big doubts how the police would think a well known crime reporter can suddenly get involved in a train robbery. As for the revenge plot where the climax takes place in a cold storage warehouse is underwhelming in its sheer hokeyness. I think the film-makers got bored as it suddenly ends.

malcolmgsw If you are of a certain age ,like me you will remember films like this on the supporting half of double bills at your local Odeon,Gaumont or ABC.Some of them were quite good.Unfortunately this is not.It is riddled with implausibilities.For budget purposes much of the action is described rather than shown.The initial set up is implausible.After all wouldn't it have been easier for Phillips to have been killed or beaten up rather than locked up in prison.Wouldn't the police have thought that it was rather unlikely to have found some of the stolen mailbags in a car at the station.Phillips would have been sentenced to nearer 10 than 2 years if he had struck down a policeman.Maybe even 30 years as the Great Train Robbers.Then when he gets out he goes to the club and then sees the "witness".I could go on but little point .This is on the same disc as Serena which is a far superior film.

Michael **ENDING SPOILER(ISH)**Second feature idiocy in which Phillips is an aspiring journalist who inconveniently finds himself accused of a train robbery. With the help of his girlfriend, several rusty cans of worms are opened on the tracks to proving himself innocent.The jury were also unanimous on Phillips' co-screenwriting ability it would seem, as he had not been given the chance to do so before this and was afforded even less chance to do so afterwards.

Johnk-5 This was shown in UK TV in the middle of the night recently (Dec 1998) and I was transfixed by its amateurishness. The fight scenes were so unconvincing, I think I could have arranged them and the script was cliche ridden.It's worth seeing just to see how bad it is.