David Alexander

Sorry, I switched off after about 30 minutes. Howard Duff as the over-the-top enterprising newspaper photographer was just too much to take. Newspaper photographers I've known in the past are nothing like this. As for the movie, from a fast film noir opening scene where he is being pursued and bashed by three thugs after hiding his camera along the way the movie quickly bogs down with a romantic interlude (what this could have to do with the plot I don't know) Next he is fast- talking the town's gang boss and winning him over. I may return to this movie some time to give it a second chance but not right now. a abd winning him around

I don't know if I liked this movie or disliked it (not very helpful, am I ?). I kept with it till the end, wondering where it was going. It comes down to the old mathematical equation : three into two don't go! One couple (in this case a lesbian couple) on a blind date with a third girl. I was waiting for a more dramatic end than the one we got, that's all.

There was Roger Moore as The Saint and Patrick McGoohan as the Secret Agent. Then there was Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn, the most suave and sophisticated and most deadly of them all. He was the coolest dude on the planet, even when under fire. I think hw would have been a magnificent James Bond but we'll settle for him as Peter Gunn. Talking of cool, I think Lola Albright as the love of his life, would have to be one of the most seductive seductresses on celluloid!

An exciting fast-tracked film noir, this. It is interesting in that it shows the lead-up to the heist of $2 million from a racetrack from the point of view of each indivusl gang member. It is a finely tuned operation planned down to the last detail by the gang leader expertly portrayed by Sterling Hayden. Finely tuned that is eceot thst he didn't include thr " what if's". What if there,'s a gkit. Whst if something goes wrong?