The Main Chance

1964
1h 1m

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A wealthy young layabout tries to double cross the master-crook who has engaged him to do a job.A wealthy young layabout tries to double cross the master-crook who has engaged him to do a job.A wealthy young layabout tries to double cross the master-crook who has engaged him to do a job.

Director
- John Knight
Writers
- Richard Harris
- Edgar Wallace
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5.6/10

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Director
- John Knight
Writers
- Richard Harris
- Edgar Wallace
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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4gnok2002

Routine

i'm inserting reviews of those films I've seen that lack one, i have a fondness for old b&w British films, so am always on the look out for obscure examples such as this, I watched this in 2009, but can't recall it, here is the note I made at the time....''Routine little Merton Park thriller involving a Mr big of the criminal underworld hiring an ex RAF conman to fly some diamonds across the channel, OK.''

4malcolmgsw

One of the poorest of the series

This film does not use the iconic music,instead it utilises a truly cacophonistic score.The story is very indifferent.Edward da Souza plays a cashiered RAF pilot who is now a gambler.He is coerced by Aslan into collecting diamonds from France and bringing them back to England.There are a number of twists,with each one being trumped.One of the big problems is Aslan who seems very hesitant with his lines and therefore exudes no menace.They really needed Herbert Lom or Allen Wheatley

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Trivia
One of a series of second feature films based on Edgar Wallace novels, released between 1960 and 1965 in British cinemas. The films were later sold to American TV and screened there as The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959).

Goofs
The car that meets Mr Potter at Nantes, and the car that meets Blake at a French airfield, are both British right hand drive cars, with French number plates.