Synopsis
Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury, an American newspaper reporter, learns about him and his operation. She ... Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury, an American newspaper reporter, learns about him and his operation. She wages a crusade against Sugiani, and enlists the aid of her fiancée, 'Jumbo' Hyde, a former British Commando captain. Sugiania tries to buy her off but fails, and then threatens her life. Linda and Hyde get a gymnasium operator to lend them some fighters to storm Sugiani's headquarters.
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- 90 minutes
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- Feature Films
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★★★ · Postwar humour · JPF Goodman · 2017-07-02
The spivs must've been shaking in their boots when they saw this! A pacy thriller, that features a very lively climactic mob fight scene. "We are aiming for 300 arrests" police Inspector Stanley Holloway tells his constables, commanding a mass raid on a gang of black marketeers. The fight contains moments of cinematic humour that matches that of Frank Tashlin. And lead Carole Landis (in her last film) gets fully in on the scrap, together with an equally glamorous woman giving the Italian chief villain a sound beating. Later he is found garroted with the stocking that gives the film its…