A cosmetic business is in financial trouble so one of the directors, Mitchell Logan, decides to arrange for the factory to be burned down in order to collect the insurance money. Everything appears to be going well but a cleaning lady anxious not to work on the day of her daughter's wedding and an expensive fur coat lead to the plan backfiring.
The 1962 film Backfire - there have been several with this title - is a cheaply made British B feature adapted from a story by Edgar Wallace. A cosmetic company is trading at a loss and has severe cash flow problems.
"Backfire!" is currently holding a 2.
I very wonder why some familiar stars have participated this lousy film. It is really a time waster!
I happened to see this movie on cable TV. I was surprised I had never heard of it, and it turned out to be quite funny.
The jokes in this movie generally fall into one of the four following categories: obvious ("Your back!" - "Yes, I'm back" - "No, your BACK"), crude (a coroner biting off a piece of a corpse), repetitive (every time an expression is used, it is then demonstrated literally: for example, a man says "Don't put words into my mouth", then pulls out a piece of paper with "words" written on it), and derivative ("I have to take this to the city hall" - "What is it?
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