Kathleen Byron

Laurence Harvey

Sydney Tafler

Arthur Hill

Dora Bryan

Eliot Makeham

Harry Fowler

Cyril Chamberlain

Renee Kelly

Hylton Allen

Sheila Aza

Joyce Boorman

Joyce Brent

Vi Kaley

John Powe

Gerald Rex

Bill Shine

John Wilder

Lewis Gilbert

Moie Charles

A.R. Rawlinson

Geoffrey Faithfull

Kenneth Morrison

Ernest G. Roy

Catherine Morrison

Harry White

Vera Franklin

Bill Lodge

E.S. Laurie

Jack Causey

Tommy Meyers

Dudley Lovell

Evelyn Gibbs

Peter Pitt

Doris Martin

Drama

Scarlet Thread

Nettlefold Films

United Kingdom

Minor crime pic with Harvey as a cockney pickpocket and Tafler as scheming posh crook!  They pull an old fashioned smash and grab, then flee to Cambridge, for dull second half. Some interesting location footage of the West End.

CinemaSerf

There are two things memorable about this crime drama. The first is Laurence Harvey's hair - two or three tubs of Brylcream? The second is - as always - Kathleen Byron's eyes. She can smile all she likes but those eyes always look they are about to impale you, violently, on a nearby rusty nail! Actually, as this film unfolds it proves distinctly possible that the former may well end up a victim of the latter as he and his partner-in-crime "Marcon" (Sydney Tafler) take refuge at her stately pile whilst on the run from the police. Harvey ("Freddie") is a cocky young man who panics during a jewel robbery and he kills an innocent man. Now the two must flee the pursuing constabulary and slowly but surely begin to mistrust one another - a situation that comes to an head as Miss Byron ("Josephine") discovers the identity of their victim. Lewis Gilbert assembles a decent supporting cast - Dora Bryan and Tafler's regular screen pal Harry Fowler to keep this rather less predictable and more interesting than many of the genre. There is a bit of scope for characterisation and the story has a twist at the end that adds a certain element of just desserts too. Rarely seen nowadays, but worth a watch.

English