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6.7/10 • 53

1947-06-241h 39m

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Gangway for Gangland's Blazing Guns!

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Directors
Alberto Cavalcanti
Editors
Margery Saunders

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  1. Sally Gray

    Sally Gray

    Sally Connor

  2. Trevor Howard

    Trevor Howard

    George Clement 'Clem' Morgan

  3. Griffith Jones

    Griffith Jones

    Narcy

  4. Rène Ray

    Rène Ray

    Cora (as Rene Ray)

  5. Mary Merrall

    Mary Merrall

    Aggie

  6. Charles Farrell

    Charles Farrell

    Curley

  7. Michael Brennan

    Michael Brennan

    Jim

  8. Jack McNaughton

    Jack McNaughton

    Soapy

  9. Cyril Smith

    Cyril Smith

    Bert

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Jul 7, 2022

7/10

After WWII, "Clem Morgan" (Trevor Howard) returns to little opportunity in wartorn Britain, so he hooks up with some hoodlums. When one of their robberies goes wrong, his new "friends" frame him for the killing of a policeman and to prison he goes. He escapes, and bent on revenge the film follows his efforts to get back home and to settle the scores. Howard was never the most natural of actors, I always found him just a little too sterile, but he acquits himself well enough here with a couple of decent performances from Griffith Jones as his nemesis "Narcy" (as in Narcissist) and Sally Gray as the conflicted ("Sally") as well as a solid supporting cast with the aptly named heavy Peter Bull, a drunken Maurice Denham with his resentful wife Vida Hope and Ballard Berkeley. This story is tensely directed with plenty of mini-escapades en route to keep it interesting. The fight scenes are a little bit over-staged and the ending is really quite a stretch to the imagination - Howard's skill at weaponising milk bottles borders on the comical, but the rest of it is well paced and a good watch.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
film noiron the runframed for a crime