A bank job is beautifully executed. But some poor slob ex con delivery man is roughed up by a suspicious police force. He's naturally extremely pissed off by this, and sets off to find the real culprits. You're immediately struck by the acting. The wrong man is John Payne, from Miracle on 34th Street. The actual criminals are the interesting-looking Jack Elam (one of the three assassins at the start of Once Upon a Time in the West), Lee Van Cleef, and hard man Neville Brand (DOA, Stalug 17). These people look tough and the action is violent. Also involved are Preston Foster and his daughter Coleen Gray, and a Mexican (actually, African-American) vamp Dona Drake.
The plot is rather crafty. It was written by George Bruce and Harry Essex from a story by Harold Greene and Rowland Brown (Green and Brown, geddit?? Ha. Ha.) George Diskant shot it. It's an independent production released through United Artists. Paul Sawtell is the composer.
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| Jack Elam. Such a loser you can't help feeling sorry for him |
The idea that the three are masked, so they can't rat on each other, is rather brilliant. Thanks to Eddie Muller, who pointed me this way via 'Dark City'.
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