Evidence of cutting in bath scene? According to the BBFC the film was submitted on 1 November 1970 and cut, the 1993 video release of 106 minutes 52 seconds was marked 'previous cuts waived'. (This 2014 edition is 107 minutes.) There's definitely a continuity thing here.
Grim and gritty crime thriller based on Ted Lewis novel 'Jack's Return Home' (also the source for 1972 Hit Man with Pam Grier), adapted by Hodges.
Ending doesn't make sense - he deliberately overdoses a woman so that it will appear she dies on the grounds of the bad guy, who otherwise is arrested for having some dope.. he won't be in prison long. Meanwhile, Carter is dead...( a fashionable change to the novel).
Michael Caine is great. Lots of familiar faces: Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne (rather good as the villain), Tony Beckley, George Sewell (UFO), Geraldine Moffat, Dorothy White, Rosemarie Dunham, Petra Markham (Carter's niece; Ace of Wands, The Hireling), Alun Armstrong, Bryan Mosley, Bernard Hepton, Terence Rigby, Godfery Quigley, Glynn Edwards (Reggie Perrin).
Music by Roy Budd, photographed by Wolf Suschitsky. Made by MGM British.
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| Hodges has an annoying way of framing sometimes |
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| John Osborne |
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