For someone who looked like a cad, John Derek didn't play a lot of them - he started off as a weakling type them became a hero but he's effectively cast here as a pimp, working in London's red light district. He seduces gals and turns them to a life of crime.
The main gal here is Italian actress Milly Vitale, who I didn't know that well. His seduction of her is well done with racy-ish scenes, for the time - she's kissing his bare chest in bed. Vitale is okay but I wish Diana Dors played the lead.
Derek is fine. He's well cast. He gets a showy scene where he verbally abuses Vitale and does fine. Derek poo-pooed his acting career but he could be seen to be trying hard and he definitely does here.
William Frankyln is a journo investigating the racket. He makes some pleas for decriminalising prostitution.
Producer Raymond Stross made this - he specialised in sexier movies. The director was Don Chaffey. He and Stross then made A Question of Adultery.
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