Ambush in Leopard Street | |
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Directed by | J. Henry Piperno |
Written by | Ahmed Faroughy Bernard Spicer |
Produced by | Bill Luckwell Jock MacGregor |
Starring | James Kenney Michael Brennan Bruce Seton |
Cinematography | Stephen Dade |
Edited by | Norman Cohen |
Music by | Wilfred Burns |
Production companies | Bill and Michael Luckwell Ltd. |
Distributed by | British Lion-Columbia Distributors (UK) (as BLC Films Ltd.) |
Release date | 1962 |
Running time | 72 mins |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Ambush in Leopard Street is a low budget 1962 British 'B' [1] black and white crime film directed by J. Henry Piperno. [2] [3] [4] It stars James Kenney, Michael Brennan, and Bruce Seton.
Harry is a small time crook who plans one last job before he retires, but things do not go quite according to plan. With his sidekick Nimmo, the plan is to ambush a truck containing £500,000 of diamonds in Leopard Street, but heavy security means recruiting a larger criminal gang than usual, and the inexperienced newcomers may derail Harry's scheme.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Even the climax, the actual ambush, lacks punch in this routine and unconvincing crime thriller. The acting is adequate, but suffers from confined production and a more than usually weak story." [5]
Kine Weekly described the film as: "a dicy British 'second'." [6]
Chibnall and McFarlane in The British 'B' Film called the film an "impoverished crook drama." [1]
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