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I remember Lee Patterson from One Life to Live, but I never thought of him as a hunk. Boy was I wrong.

I also didn't realize he had a decent B movie career. In this British film, Spin a Dark Web, he is hired by a gangster and falls for his sister (Faith Domergue).

When a friend's son is killed by a member of said gangster's group, everyone denies the guy worked for Pattersin's current employer. He soon realizes he's working for a bottom feeder.

As the femme fatale, Faith Domergue manages to making a biting role into not much. The character is evil, actually more evil than her brother, but for me she just didn't give the role much gumption. I would have loved seeing Anne Baxter in this role.

Yesterday I complained about people walking around Italy speaking English with Italian accents because since they are really speaking Italian, no accent is needed.

Today I will complain because Domergue is from Sicily, and as a Sicilian speaking English, she should have an accent - like her brother has.

It's just okay.

When this film was made Soho had a rather seedy reputation.Gangs running protection rackets,illegal gambling and drink clubs,prostitution and strip clubs.Soho had it all.Most though not all of this has gone.Nowdays it is full of trendy restaurants and clubs.So the most interesting aspect of this otherwise uninspired and derivative thriller are the location shots.The credit titles,open over the Casino Cinema,now Prince Edward Theatre,showing "This Is Cinerama".I was taken to see this and saw it again a couple of years ago at The National Media Museum in Bradford.Very spectacular.We then follow Patterson around the streets at night.Next we see him coming out of a building in Soho Square which i believe is where the BBFC is now situated.Finally we get shots of Patterson walking through the famous Berwick Street market.The strange thing about the plot is Patterson is supposed to be a boxer,but he suddenly becomes a telephone engineer without explanation.The plot is predictable enlivened only by the oily boss splendidly portrayed by the marvelous Martin Benson,who keeps on complaining about the food he is served.

One is to see how bad Faye Domerogue is acting and two to see 26 year old Lee Patterson in all his handsome glory.

The rest is a typical B gangster film with a frigid femme fatale.

In the 1950s-60s, many American actors went to Europe to star in various films. Perhaps the studios saw it as a way to draw in more people to see the films...perhaps it was to satisfy investors that they had a big name for the leads. Regardless, hundreds of films were made with various A and B-list Americans. "Soho Incident" is unusual in that it does star one American (Faith Domergue) but also a Canadian (Lee Patterson). And, while I loved Domergue in the film (she was a great femme fatale), she and her brother in the film were lousy choices for the movie. Why? Because Martin Benson played an Italian guy and Domergue his sister. So why did he sound VERY Italian and she sounded just like an American? Despite this dumb casting choice, "Soho Incident" is a dandy crime film...one well worth seeing.

The story finds Jim (Patterson) working as a boxer but going no where. So he decides to go for fast and easy money by going to work for Mr. Francesi, a gambler with a dubious reputation. Much of this is because Francesi's sister (Domergue) is infatuated with him. Soon he makes himself very useful doing various shady things, but he isn't willing to hurt anyone...which is a problem since his boss isn't above murder. And, when Jim sees him kill a fellow crook, he's had enough and wants out. But it isn't Mr. Francesi he has to worry about but his demon-like sister....she'll stop at nothing to destroy Jim and she takes his leaving VERY personally.

You just have to see the awful things the sister does in this one....she is the ultimate femme fatale. I'll say no more....just see it and be amazed. Fine writing that avoids the usual clichés is why I particularly liked this one.

This is only a shabby B-feature but it grows interesting as it develops. A young Canadian coming from America has a friend in Soho whom he looks up and asks for a job, and the friend gets him a job as a kind of general technical support to a Sicilian who runs various rackets concerning racing horses and greyhounds, who doesn't mind applying murky measures. He has a sister who gets interested in the young Canadian, and they develop a relationship. Too late it appears that she is the spider in the web of her brother's murky affairs, our Canadian wants to get out but it is too late, he knows too much, and she won't let him. There are a few murders and that spiral is getting worse, and so the intrigue develops towards constantly more doubtful complications. Finally there are some thrilling car chases through the waterfront of London with amazing views and insights into that and the Soho part of London in the 50s. For this the film is worth watching, even if you have to wait for it. Faith Domergue makes a fascinating portrait of the fatal woman in question in her cool intelligent and cruel calculation, and Lee Patterson makes a likeable figure of the innocent Canadian who can't get out of his unintentional mess. It should be seen in black-and-white though.