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Directed by | Max Varnel |
Written by | Robert Hirst |
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Cinematography | James Wilson |
Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
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Production company | Danziger Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount British Pictures (UK) |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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Clem is a hard-up office clerk who unwillingly joins a gang planning a bank robbery. The heist ends in murder, and after running away he gives himself up.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: This laborious "crime does not pay" concoction neither holds nor convinces, and the sentimental conclusion leaves far too many loose ends dangling. The acting, too, seems very much at a loss." [2]
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