A half good movie - a decent enough crims on the run tale with George Cole and Jack Warner escaped from prison. A dumb subplot with David Tomlinson as a reporter whose editor keeps interrupting Tomlinson's honeymoon Front Page style. Why have this? Why not have them cross with the crooks? Why not have the wife's life in danger?
Films made under Sydney Box at Gainsborough were always half good - they'd have these decent ideas and casts but not be there.
Warner is excellent. Great death running through a bomb field. Decent location work. I love his character and relationship with his exes. Cole is fine - might've been better with a stronger character though. Cole is too wet and weak. It needed a third strong character - not Tomlinson, a driven cop or something like they had in Runaway Train. And a stronger relationship between Cole and Warner.
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