Robert Hamer effort is very well directed, with plenty of style and snazzy use of locations. John Mills is a little bland as the man wrong sent to prison for 12 years - the sort of part that would've really suited say Stanley Baker, who wasn't established at the time yet. Dirk Bogarde could've done it (even if perhaps too young). Jack Hawkins. Richard Todd.
Elizabeth Sellars is the woman who helped betray him and is now married to cop John McCallum. This is really intriguing only not much is done with it story wise except McCallum worries, feels guilty and get Sellars to confess. McCallum really needed to try to kill Mills - or to be killed by the baddy, to give it a kick. Or Mills needed to die or still be in love with Sellars. It's too easy for him to forgive and have the nice horny foreign girl come along.
Still, a pretty good film.
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