Suspected Person

American bank robbers Robert Beatty (Franklin) and Eric Clavering (Dolan) travel to London to track down Clifford Evans (Jim) who has escaped with the money. He is living with his sister Patricia Roc (Joan) who unknowingly rents out a room to detective David Farrar (Inspector Thomson) who is tailing the gang and who is also after the money to crack the case and arrest all 3 guilty men. Singer Anne Firth (Carol) also has lodgings in the same house and becomes the girlfriend of Evans. Can Farrar crack the case?

It's a zippy story that keeps you watching and so it scores points on that front. It also has a couple of surprises in store, especially for Farrar as he thinks he has things solved. Not quite. I also liked the 2 bad-guy robbers and Anne Firth sings a good song in the nightclub. However, I have to give the film an overall verdict of "ok" as opposed to "good" as people speak their lines too quickly so it's not always clear what they are saying. This is especially true of the character of Eddie at the film's start and Farrar is also an offender in this respect. He speaks too quickly and swallows his vowels in a Noel Coward kind of way. Also, Clifford Evans is a poor lead character – he's not very appealing or convincing as a tough guy. And how about those fake punches!