Intriguing little B film from Hammer, very obviously adapted from a play, which starts out as A Christmas Carol - mean bank manager Peter Cushing is horrible to all his employees - then turns into a sort of Petrified Forest with Andre Morrell turning up pretending to be a bank dude then trying to rob the bank. For the first two-thirds this is tense stuff, very well acted from Cushing and Morrell - but it doesn't have a third act and ends with a bit of a damp squib. Morrell gives himself up very easily and you keep expecting Richard Vernon (as a bank employee) to do something interesting, but it never happens.
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