Violence, robbery - and depth of character. Margaret Whiting is great as the tart, and Derren Nesbitt as her pimp. He is apparently the mastermind of a bank job, but as the film progresses he reveals that he doesn't have much of a mind. He is as dependent on "Maisie" as she is on him.
Other reviewers have been surprised at the violence - do young people think they invented it? It's yet another rerun of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. The thieves have the dough, in two suitcases, but have to hide out in the seedy digs of a Jewish bird breeder, and then in the shabby warehouse owned by a quiet member of the gang, Leon Sale. He's the real leader, who uses the dim and fragile Derren Nesbitt as a front.
Nigel Patrick as the cop has an informant, one of three Irish brothers. The gang send Derren to get rid of him. The other two brothers, though they've gone straight, have enough underworld mates to be revenged - kidnapping Maisie, pretending they've got her son hostage, and seizing Rory Kinnear as he tries to escape the murder rap his "friends" have hung on him.
Good prevails, but the final battle is bloody. I'd like to know what happens to Maisie, and the surviving Irish brother. (Like most filmic Irish brothers, they seem to come from different counties.)
Other reviewers have been surprised at the violence - do young people think they invented it? It's yet another rerun of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. The thieves have the dough, in two suitcases, but have to hide out in the seedy digs of a Jewish bird breeder, and then in the shabby warehouse owned by a quiet member of the gang, Leon Sale. He's the real leader, who uses the dim and fragile Derren Nesbitt as a front.
Nigel Patrick as the cop has an informant, one of three Irish brothers. The gang send Derren to get rid of him. The other two brothers, though they've gone straight, have enough underworld mates to be revenged - kidnapping Maisie, pretending they've got her son hostage, and seizing Rory Kinnear as he tries to escape the murder rap his "friends" have hung on him.
Good prevails, but the final battle is bloody. I'd like to know what happens to Maisie, and the surviving Irish brother. (Like most filmic Irish brothers, they seem to come from different counties.)