It's a well-planned job to steal half a million quid in diamonds -- mastermind Bruce Seton has arranged to sell it for a hundred grand -- and it looks like it should go very well. Part of the plan calls for James Kenney to romance the jeweler's secretary, Jean Harvey.
This is a really pretty mediocre heist drama that offers little more than a vehicle for cute James Kenney (always "Mr. Longleyyyy" to me) as a young man ("Johnny") who is assigned the task of schmoozing a woman who works for some diamond dealers, so he can help his sister's boyfriend and his pals to rob the place.
Only one of the previous reviewers picks up on the fact that this film was made at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, and even he doesn't mention that most of the cast are Irish too (including Marie Conmee, who stood in for Burt Lancaster as the hunt saboteur a couple of years later in 'The List of Adrian Messenger'), along with the locations, which don't look like London.Despite the tinny sound and frequently mismatched shots, quite a few of the cast (along with cameraman Stephen Dade, not that you'd know it from his work on this) are familiar from more prestigious films, notably Norman Rodway, who a few years later was playing Hotspur for Orson Welles in 'Chimes at Midnight'.
Michael Brennan who normally plays minor crooks or military characters here actually stars in a film.He plays the leader of a band of robbers who are planning to hold up a van carrying half a million pounds worth of jewels.
Poverty Row film making at its most poverty stricken. Everything from script, direction, sets, and acting reeks of desperation.
A small time thief called Harry (Michael Brennan) plans his one last job and the biggest he has ever attempted; a £500,000 diamond heist from Beaumont's jewelers. He has recruited Nimmo (Bruce Seton) to do the planning and his young brother-in-law Johnny (James Kenney) to cultivate the friendship of Beaumont's secretary Jean Roberts (Jean Harvey), a shy, single, middle-aged woman in order to learn when the diamonds are being dispatched.
