A small gang settles for an impossible heist, stealing a priceless Buddha statue at a museum in broad daylight in the middle of a public show and trying to get away with it. They do get away in a car, leaving one man behind who raised the revolver and leaving another man to make a phone call while the rest just run off with the statue, worth £50.000. One of them tries to save the statue for himself by hijacking an airplane and pulls a gun on the pilot, they fight, the plane crashes, the man with the statue runs on, and soon not only Scotland Yard but all other members of the gang are after him, gradually killing each other off including some obligatory fisticuffs, some falling into the water and others getting caught up in a roller-coaster at the fair. Hitchcock could have made something out of it. John Lemont doesn't. It's all quite common routine stuff with a lovely singing girl and all, which doesn't help. None of the actors offers any interest, this was made for nothing more than an entertainment and rather haphazardly, it seems. Not even the music is of any value. Fortunately it is only one hour long.
Review of The Green Buddha
The Green Buddha
(1954)
Shop-lifting at a museum and pulling a gun in a private airplane
24 March 2023