Dial 999

The police come by, asking Mona Freeman about her husband, Gene Nelson. After they leave, he shows up, asking Miss Freeman and her brother, Michael Goodliffe, to help him get out of the UK; he didn't mean to kill the guy. Goodliffe thinks the thing to do is to deal with the police, but Miss Freeman backs her husband. This leads her on a circuitous journey through the rather kindhearted underworld on getting Nelson out of the UK without a passport.

Because I have no idea of how I would go about finding them, I found it an interesting exercise in dealing with ordinary, decent crooks and singleminded officialdom, in a path that leads from downtown London through what purports to be the rural parts of Kent. There's little character observation beyond simple types; the well organized, seemingly casual, and cautious criminals provide both barriers and help in a manner that seems very real, given director Montgomery Tully's quick pacing to keep the story going and making sure this second feature didn't much exceed an hour in length. With John Bentley, Sidney Tafler, and Paula Byrne.