lucyrfisher Highlights are the girls, Mela White (pre-Bergerac) and Susan Travers, with their trashy look, high-pitched Cockney accents and bleached blonde hair. What a lovely time they're having, going to the movies or to the coffee-bar - an alternative to the pub that's open in the evening and provides endless cups of coffee, hits on the jukebox, and amusing beatniks. Our hero George the ex-con enjoys sketching the types (and he's not bad - I hope he gets that job at the commercial art studio). I also enjoyed the furniture shop that employs George and Susan T, the undercover cop. She takes her stand in front of a large ad for Ercol, and hipsters would simply adore that modernist sideboard.All this is a contrast to the ex-prisoners' hostel - a survival from the Edwardian era (only 50 years previously), with aspidistras everywhere and a lady in a flowery apron called Ma.George makes just one visit to his middle-class mother (we only get a glimpse of her house's plushy interior), but we learn enough to understand something of what made him rob shops instead of joining the army or studying law. Or perhaps he just prefers coffee-bar life with girls like Mela and Susan. I don't blame him.

Leofwine_draca A nice little B picture from prolific thriller director Montgomery Tully. The plot is unusual enough to make this stand out and there are some great little moments portrayed very well despite what is obviously a low budget. Heck, even the fog is in short supply here, but OUT OF THE FOG still packs a punch as a murder mystery and has something to say at the same time.The plot sees the callow and unlikeable David Sumner being released from prison and going to live in a kind of halfway house populated by delightful old lags. Most of these ex-cons are made of great British character actors like Michael Ripper, George Woodbridge, and Richard Shaw. The jovial James Hayter is the nice chap who runs the place. However, this is just the background for the main plot, involving a serial killer with a penchant for strangling blondes.Sumner is the main suspect and OUT OF THE FOG follows the police's tailing and eventual attempts to apprehend him. Susan Travers has a fine role as the undercover policewoman used as bait. There's a wonderfully evocative ending and lots of good character work en route; nothing much feels out of place, and overall the film is a nice and tidy piece of work.

malcolmgsw This film was recently shown on Talking Pictures and it must be its first outing for many years.I don't recall seeing it on TV before if I had I would definitely have remembered.It builds up very nicely to a truly atmospheric and creepy finale.I can just imagine audiences jumping out of their seats when the stragglers hands suddenly clutch at the blonde policewoman throat.the director,Montgomery Tully is one of those unsung heroes of British cinema of the 1950s.films such as this are far more memorable than the film's they supported.catch it when it is shown again on particular the final ten minutes when you really aren't certain what is going to happen,a rare event for any film in that period.

n_adams1 Another black and white English movie from Renown, this one was paired with another called Radio Cab Murder, that was'nt bad but I prefer this one.The main character is a surly ex convict called George Mallon played by David Sumner who has a wonderful quiff of hair. He is taken into a sort of halfway house when released from jail, he does manage to get a job, however he does'nt integrate very well with his new friends.Shortly after his arrival a series of murders start to occur, the victims are all blond and one he was having a little dalliance with.Obviously he becomes the main suspect although despite his surliness I kind of sided with him and was delighted when he was revealed not to be the killer.A short film only 68 minutes but I don't mind that, I would recommend it to other's who like this sort of film.