Bart Crosbie (Pat O'Brien) is a washed up drunken hack journalist, who finds himself in the middle of a murder inquiry, when his editor Brook (Ronald Adam), is murdered after trying to expose a local mobster Heinz (George Coulouris). Brook's dying breath tells Bart who did it, but Bart needs lots of money fast to pay for his son's operation. So he comes to an arrangement with Heinz. For the price of the operation Bart will confess, leaving Heinz in the clear. Only one problem remains, Jill Brook (Lois Maxwell). She's Brook's niece and the person who stumbled on Bart standing over her uncle's body, gun in hand, but even so she comes to believe he's innocent. Worse of all the police believe her and they cut him loose, leaving Heinz believing he's been double-crossed, and you don't want to cross Heinz!The actions of a desperate man as his confession crumbles, gives a nice angle. The actors fill out their parts well, and there's even room for Freddie Mills (a British boxing legend), and Tommy Steele (rocking out as himself) to pop up. All in all it makes a solid, if not a classic film noir.
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