You Pay Your Money

1957
1h 8min

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Honor Blackman and Hugh McDermott in You Pay Your Money (1957)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA rogue smuggler enters the world of intrigue and deception, when he finds that his wife has been kidnapped his world changes.A rogue smuggler enters the world of intrigue and deception, when he finds that his wife has been kidnapped his world changes.A rogue smuggler enters the world of intrigue and deception, when he finds that his wife has been kidnapped his world changes.

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1nickjgunning

Something you watch if you can't find the remote!

The story is pedestrian, the acting indescribable and the sets seem buried from some other movie. No living people ever spoke dialogue like this, like a Home Service 'drama'. At one point Honor Blackman becomes almost animated when her car horn upstages her. McDermid creeps into the hotel like a cartoon wolf under cover of this dialogue by numbers. His detective skills are not exactly Hercule Poirot and the demands of the script cannot be the cause of his mugging to camera. All of the cast speak in turn- like an old- time radio phonecall, ship to ship. Hilton and Blackman show all the acting skills of photographic models in a clothing catalogue. 75 minutes I won't get back.

6richardchatten

"I don't give a rap about the books! My wife is a different story!!"

Thus says Hugh McDermott in this lively but inconsequential little Butchers quickie; and his words are borne out by the eye-watering lack of respect with which he paws a batch of supposedly priceless, centuries-old volumes filched by the Nazis from the monastery at Monte Cassino in 1944.

Second and third-billed are glamorous fifties femmes Jane Hylton & Honor Blackman; the former nearing the end of her tenure as a blonde Bad Girl, the latter - ironically older than Hylton but who outlived her by over forty years - still five years away from 'The Avengers'. Blackman has already adopted the sleek mane she wore for the remainder of her long life, and for much of the film wears trousers and a stylishly-worn scarf; but here it's Hylton who packs heat while Blackman instead uses one of her high-heeled shoes to put a goon's lights out.

6malcolmgsw

A Lot Of Plot For An Hour

This B feature from Butchers has so much plot that you tend to get lost in its labyrinthine machinations.There are many lost threads so you just give up trying to work out what is happening.Honor Blackman looks as glamorous as ever,and seems to have a new outfit for every scene.She is still acting having been starred in last Saturday@ Casualty.It is obvious that Botchers could not afford even a second rate American actor so they chose Hugh McDermott as the lead.The cast is quite reasonable and the direction brisk though some of the fight scenes are a bit pathetic .Yet this is nevertheless an entertaining thriller and worth a viewing.

4Leofwine_draca

Butcher's Film fail

A stodgy, late '50s-era thriller from Butcher's Film Productions. This one's a lamentable effort about an everyday guy getting mixed up with a gang of Middle Eastern smugglers. When he discovers that his delectable wife has been kidnapped by the group, he must go after them to seek her safe return.

There's some mild intrigue in this film, and a few characters who double-cross each other, but for the most part it's very dull and it lacks the lively charm of other productions like SMOKESCREEN or IMPACT. Hugh McDermott was a poor choice for the film's hero; his American accent is awful and he seems uninterested in the proceedings.

In a bid to spice things up there are a couple of fight scenes thrown into the mix but they have more in common with a bar-room brawl in the Wild West than a genteel British thriller. Watch out for the lovely Honor Blackman who is given little to do as the kidnapped wife.

3geoffm60295

Very mediocre!

Another cheap B film produced by Butcher Studios with a tale of kidnapping and rare book smuggling. Thrown in to give the film a sense of 'mystery' is a Middle Eastern connection, which adds neither mystery nor sense. The storyline is weak, the dialogue is awful and the acting is poor. All of the characters are one dimensional and all seem to be going through the motions. Our American sleuth/hero, played by Hugh McDermott, never seems to work up a sweat or express any range of emotions. He ambles through every scene, with Honor Blackman, his love interest, looking frankly bored by the whole thing. The pace of the film never moves out of first gear. I felt at times I was watching a rather good televised amateur dramatic performance! However, if you want to study clothes, cars and furniture, as well as the drinking and smoking habits of the middle class set in 1957, this film may be of some interest.

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Bob Westlake: And in one of the two cases are these 'Prophecies of Achmed'?
Dr. Burger: We believe so. And possibly Mr Mordaunt was not even aware of the fact. But I can assure you they are highly dangerous
Bob Westlake: What are they exactly?
Dr. Burger: Achmed the Elder was a great eastern seer and prophet in the early part of the fourteenth century. There is a belief that in his work, he foretold the fate of the entire Arab world and its eventual triumph over the infidel
Bob Westlake: I see
Dr. Burger: In recent years, a new Achmed cult has appeared. Their leader, Hejez Delal, is a skilled agitator and with the aid of those original works he could well set the whole of the Middle East aflame - Egypt, Syria, the Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq
Bob Westlake: Sort of holy war?
Dr. Burger: A Jihad - exactly. And on a vast scale. There is still widespread superstition amongst the desert tribes - and, as you know, there is already trouble enough in Morocco and elsewhere
Bob Westlake: And this is the mob that's kidnapped my wife...