Peter Reynolds

Dermot Walsh

Joanna Dunham

Lisa Gastoni

Brian Cobby

Jack Allen

Geoffrey Denton

Arnold Diamond

Richard Golding

John G. Heller

Mercia Mansfield

Eric Corrie

Desmond Cullum-Jones

Charles Russell

Joe Wadham

Gertan Klauber

Arthur Howell

Tony Castleton

Pat Clavin

Peter Evans

John Lawrence

Louis Matto

Mary Maxfield

Terry Sartain

Reg Thomason

Pete Walker

Lance Comfort

Frank Drake

John Earl

Mervyn Medalie

Richard A. Smith

Peter Lambert

Michael Hart

Jackie Cummins

Ann Besserman

Laurence Meynell

Pat Green

Peter Medak

Albert Elms

Peter Pitt

Basil Emmott

George Claff

Crime

Thriller

The Breaking Point

Butcher's Film Productions

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"Eric" (Peter Reynolds) has expensive tastes, and an unsavoury gentleman of ill-repute knows it! His gaming tables become a regular haunt for the young man, and the IOUs he has to leave behind each time start to accumulate. Soon, he's in a cul-de-sac that he can only escape by providing sensitive information about a currency job that is being carried out by his family printing business. Once he's in, there's no getting out and soon he is embroiled in a complex heist that will settle his debts but probably ruin his family life in the process. Luckily, he has wife "Cherry" (Joanna Dunham) and her pal "Robert" (Dermot Walsh) who are sensitive to his changing behaviour and soon smell a rat. Lance Comfort keeps it moving along well enough for an hour, but the story is just as flat as the acting and by the end I was willing the criminals to succeed despite it being certain they wouldn't. The denouement itself is simply disappointing and implausible in equal measure and left me wondering if this is all just really a moral message about no easy wins. Afternoon cinema fodder that you'll soon forget.

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