17.1.10

the deadly game (1955)

AKA Third Party Risk. The Big Deadly Game.
"...I'm in a tight spot now. I think the police suspect that I killed Tony Roscoe."
Philip Graham (Lloyd Bridges) is a song writer on holiday in Spain when he bumps into into an old RAF comrade Tony Roscoe (Peter Dyneley). When Tony is suddenly called back to Britain in an emergency, Philip offers to drive his car back for him, as well as a valuable envelope. Trouble starts immediately when he is attacked and the police reveal that Tony is involved with some very shady characters. Then when back in London he finds Tony dead and a number of people all keen to get their hands on the envelope he holds.

Bridges stumbles through a run of the mill noir, that never really gets out of first gear. One for the completists as they say.

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