Brian Trenchard Smith's follow up to The Man from Hong Kong has a nice light tone and decent cast plus some fun stunts. The basic idea is strong - two stuntmen are recruited to do a special mission - but the script is dodgy. It takes 30 minutes for Noel Ferrier to ask them to go on the mission, a lot of the stunt sequences are just sort of gags/sequences for the sake of it, instead of being tied in with the story, the mission doesn't star until something like 45 minutes in.
I think they missed a trick by having Hargreaves in a relationship with Margaret Gerard (Mrs Trenchard Smith) instead of having them fall in love during it - or at the least have her go on the mission. They definitely made a mistake starting the mission so late - that could've been the second act, with Gerard kidnapped for the third act.
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