Classic British noir, with Sir Dickie Attenborough truly unsettling as dead- eyed psychopath Pinkie, marrying a potential witness to one of his crimes in order to keep her quiet. The atmosphere of the English seaside permeates every frame, there’s an air of cheap thrills and petty desperation, empty lives blowing away with the chip wrappers. And it’s subtly subversive- the police are useless so the legwork falls to brassy, middle aged vaudevillian Ida (Hermione Baddeley), surely one of the strangest detectives in film history.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
21 Mar 2006 8:23 AM | Submit Comment
