Cabdriver Constantine falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.Cabdriver Constantine falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.Cabdriver Constantine falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.
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- TriviaMichael Caine and Ann Reid appear uncredited as a young bride and groom.
- GoofsVicki (Diana Dors) needs money for her sister's operation. Healthcare has been free in the UK since 1948.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arena: Blondes: Diana Dors (1999)
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What a wonderful surprise!
What a wonderful surprise! I was hopeful but not particularly expectant of good things here but it seemed worth a look with a warning preface from 'Fabian of the Yard', a starring role for Herbert Lom and appearances from Diana Dors and Eddie Constantine. In the event this turns out very well, nothing like as scandalous today as it would have been back in the late 50s but still fairly tough and uncompromising. Constantine, a veteran of 'B' pictures whose real claim to fame would come a few years later when Goddard would utilise his rugged looks in Alphaville plays an heroic taxi cab driver against Herbert Lom who plays the baddest of men in charge of a vice ring. Both men are particularly effective and the film, directed and lit like a noir, serves them both well. Also served well is Diana Does, her magnificent full on appearance at the start and the comment about belonging in the gutter as she smiles makes it see she may be limited to this wondrous cameo but no, she puts in a great performance throughout, the seeming excess of make-up probably more down to the fantastic clarity of the new Blu-ray. Vivid but hard to identify west London location predominate with most seeming in the Bayswater area. There is one particular scene, very unusual in British films, showing a whole area of a smart looking street with numerous ladies of the night arranged about and approaching passers by and a close-up of an ultra smart looking Whiteleys of Queensway. The seeming romantic interludes are probably a little overdone but from start to finish this is a fast moving and, if not as exploitative as suggested, certainly more lurid than might have been expected for a 60+ year old film shot on the streets of London and Walton on Thames.
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- Jun 18, 2020
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- Eddie, Tod und Teufel
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- Courtfield Gardens, Kensington, London, England, UK(girls' place of business)
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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