Assignment Redhead

This was a truly awful British thriller.It is impossible to find a good word to say about it.The acting veers from the mediocre to the amateur.Who thought that Danny Green could handle a foreign accent?The fight scenes are so badly arranged that each blow manages to be seen to miss its target by about one foot.Some of it doesn't even make sense.There is one scene towards the end when Demetrius and his partner drive into a wood to agree on a split.We next see a policeman get off his bike.Then we go back to the pair.A gun goes off but no policeman.We don't ever see him again.Demetrius kills his partner and pushes the car with him inside over a cliff,cue an abysmal model shot.At the end there is a fire in a warehouse and it is quite obvious that the smoke is an exposure over the main picture.This is the sort of film that gives B movies a bad name!

Ronald Adams, criminal extraordinaire, makes a nice living in counterfeit money and passports. To confuse American intelligence man Richard Deming -- apparently Great Britain has none of their own -- he kills one man and frames Hugh Moxey. While Deming is haring after the accused guy, he falls in love with shady Carole Matthews, while Moxey and his girlfriend investigate. Meanwhile, Adams is on the track of $12,000,000 in counterfeit money.

The nice thing about seeing Maclean Rogers as writer-director of this Butchers movie is you can watch it with your expectations set low. With that in mind, it's a decent enough flick, if you aren't distracted by all the misplaced accents. The plot is nicely tangled, so much that half the dialogue seems to be people explaining to others things they already know. Still, an adequate time-waster, which is what you hope for with Rogers.

....They certainly weren't wrong when they said that.

It made me think of that hilarious quote, snooker on black and white TV, where's the yellow? It's behind the green and next to the pink.... who was the redhead? Slightly interesting marketing.

It's not a classic, it screams b movie in terms of budget, acting, cast, sadly the story isn't even that good.

The story is dreary, but ambitious, it doesn't show the British or American services in a good light, they're all a little on the dim side.

Richard Denning looks the part, and delivers arguably a good performance, the trouble is that he's working with a very poor script, it's clunky and disjointed, the dialogue lacks any sort of life.

Carole Mathews, I didn't think was great, at times she sounds Spanish, sometimes Dutch, and other times she sounds like Miss Popov from Rentaghost.

It has a certain charm, one I find applies to many movies and shows from this era, so if you enjoy the atmosphere, clothes, cars, dodgy fight scenes, you'll possibly find this passable. 5/10.

This movie wasn't THAT bad but it had so many plot holes, poor acting by the lead chararecters, unconvincing fight scenes and it all seems a bit unrealistic although the director manages to sustain some tension despite a very poorly written script. The story rambles for far too often - even though it's only just over an hour long.

All in all a pretty mediocre 50's B movie done with very little style and is really of only intrest to fans of low budget 1950's British Films

My rating 6/10 (Because the actors try their best with very poor material and their very limited acting abilities)

Butcher's Film Productions made a mixed bag of films for sure but ASSIGNMENT REDHEAD has to be one of their very worst. It's a sloppily made post-war thriller with bad editing and a generally dull murder mystery storyline that never seems to go anywhere despite the intriguing storyline. In it, the authorities are hunting for a master criminal who they know was travelling on a particular plane. They have a cast of suspects to choose from, but which of them is it?

The format of the film is of a stodgy police procedural with little incident or action to recommend it, and when the action does hit it's very uninteresting. It doesn't help that few of the British cast members are up to the job of putting on a convincing European accent, and there's a romantic sub-plot that drags things down still further. Although I consider myself a fan of Butcher's Films I think this is their worst yet.