Night Plane to Amsterdam

A robbery involving a valuable jewel necklace goes wrong. The thief ends up killing a woman and is also seen by the owner of the house.

The scar on his face means that the thief Bosker is quickly identified. His present whereabouts though are unknown.

He was last seen in a small seedy hotel run by Madame Langer. The police also meet Bosker's girlfriend at the hotel. She is also worried about his whereabouts.

Although the trail has gone cold. Inspector Carron chases a lead in Amsterdam where the necklace turns up. He meets the gem trader and his wife.

Carron should had guessed that the Dutch wife looked familiar.

Another episode where some stock footage is used to show Amsterdam. There is a mastermind behind the theft of some jewellery and the dead victims really felt the heat.

An audacious thief steals a valuable necklace, during the event he kills a woman, but a prominent scar on his face means he is easily identified by a witness as Bosker, Inspector Carron follows a line of enquiry in Amsterdam.

I've watched a couple of these today, and I must say that in comparison to the others I've watched, this one is a little bit of a disappointment.

I wish this one had been a little bit longer, getting it all done and solved in under thirty minutes, it just felt a little bit rushed.

The conclusion didn't really come as a surprise, and the clues were definitely there to see. That said it was nicely acted, and again the production team did a good job at creating Amsterdam.

Selma Vas Dias is rather good as Madame Langer, charismatic, definitely distinctive.

6/10.

Sometimes these quota quickies give a unique insight into a vanished world before Londoin went global: a rather archaic world of clearly delineated class divisions where the crooks reported to the boss, who spent most of his life in the most fashionable Mayfair parties. The huge cars - Bentleys and Rovers - contributed to this atmosphere. The plot of this episode involves much stock footage, but director Ken Hughes livens it up with an astutely filmed car chase.