aka I Became A Criminal.
"I'm ashamed of you Bert. Standing in the way of a job for an ex-serviceman. Sometimes I wonder what England's coming to."
Ex-RAF pilot Morgan (Trevor Howard), seeks more excitement than civie street can give, hooks up with Narcy (Griffith Jones). Narcy runs a number of rackets including armed robbery, but Morgan falls out with him before an armed robbery. Morgan is pursuaded to take part in the caper, only to be fitted up for a murder and subsequently jailed. But this only gets Morgan mad and he escapes seeking revenge, sheltered by Sally (Sally Gray), Narcy's ex-girlfriend, who inevitably falls for him.
A stand out performance by Howard, and shockingly casual violence, lifts this into a competent noirish thriller.
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