The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote:

“Though basically routine in plot and substance, this lively crime thriller has the particular advantage of a freshly observed hero in Caesar Smith, convincingly played by Denis Shaw as a heavily built but agile Scotland Yard man with a dexterous line in judo.”

In running this film, which is all right to a point, I do need to have a moan about 60s films/movies. The caveat is that we’re talking youtube films/movies, which are but a fraction of the whole, plus we have different tastes, do we not, plus changing tastes with age.

What I clearly remember about the 70s was that the violence was now in slow motion for sickheads, whereas in the 60s, it was just violence, in the 50s it was suggesting it, in the 40s it was more cleverly treated. As time went on, films became more gauche, lacking in finesse.

The 80s were bland in every way imho … in either music or film … it was the greed decade, the yuppies … and everything was brown. In architecture, red brick had given way to unnatural light brown, actors were in brown, film titles became more rounded, more Helvetica.

During the 90s, I was away from home, probably thank goodness.