William Lucas is a quiet, clearly unhappy man, living in a residential hotel and working on the docks. It soon becomes clear that he is just out of prison for being involved in a counterfeiting ring. He fell, but no one else did, and he kept shtum, and nothing more has been heard from the ring. He's got a wife (Zena Walker) who lives with their child. The police come by occasionally to threaten Lucas, and now some one is threatening his daughter unless he turns over the plates to the counterfeit money. He doesn't know where they are.
Leigh is good in the lead role, but more than this, it's the very model of a crime B: short, and gets the job done at a good pace under the direction of Francis Searle. Searle was one of those mainstays of the Quota Quickies in the 1950s. He entered the industry doing shorts in the 1930s, graduated to features with an A picture, A GIRL IN A MILLION, then displayed his talent for coming in on budget and never got a big one again. With the right script and cast, he could turn out a nifty little movie, but he didn't get many of those. This was his last feature. He directed three more shorts through 1968, wrote and produced for four more years, and died in 2002 at the age of 93.
Leigh is good in the lead role, but more than this, it's the very model of a crime B: short, and gets the job done at a good pace under the direction of Francis Searle. Searle was one of those mainstays of the Quota Quickies in the 1950s. He entered the industry doing shorts in the 1930s, graduated to features with an A picture, A GIRL IN A MILLION, then displayed his talent for coming in on budget and never got a big one again. With the right script and cast, he could turn out a nifty little movie, but he didn't get many of those. This was his last feature. He directed three more shorts through 1968, wrote and produced for four more years, and died in 2002 at the age of 93.