Soho Incident | |
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Directed by | Vernon Sewell |
Screenplay by | Ian Stuart Black |
Based on | Robert Westerby (based on the novel) ("Wide Boys Never Work") |
Produced by | M. J. Frankovich George Maynard |
Starring | Faith Domergue Lee Patterson |
Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
Edited by | Peter Rolfe Johnson |
Music by | Robert Sharples |
Production company | Frankovich Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Soho Incident, released in the United States as Spin a Dark Web, is a 1956 British film noir directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Faith Domergue and Lee Patterson. [1] The screenplay is based on the 1937 novel Wide Boys Never Work by Robert Westerby.
Jim Bankley a Canadian veteran living in London, is trying without much luck to succeed as a prizefighter. Through an old army buddy, he meets and begins working for the local Sicilian mob leader Rico Francesi. Bankley falls in love with Rico's sister, the vile Bella Francesi; she soon draws him deeper into the gang's activities. When he finds himself pulled into a murder plot, he finally realizes that his lover is only using him and determines to escape the gang – but things are extremely complicated.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A competent and fast-moving gang film, with some excellent location glimpses of Soho by night and day." [2]
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