Friday, August 30, 2019

Pit of Darkness (1961)

Richard (William Franklyn) works at a safe making company. He wakes up dazed in an industrial wasteland with a wound on the side of his head but that is only the start of the trouble. When he makes it home he finds he has been missing for three weeks...

Richard has no idea what has happened in those missing three weeks but his wife Julie (Moira Redmond) is rather suspicious, especially as a strange woman has been calling for him. She is also suspicious as a private detective she hired to look for Richard was found dead and his card is found in Richard's pocket...

Richard sets out to try and find out what is going on, especially who is the woman calling for him and what is this cottage they seem to share? Richard begins to realise he is mixed up with a couple of mysterious thugs (Leonard Sachs and Tony Booth) who haven't finished with him.

A neat little British crime drama, efficient with decent performances though maybe without sufficient spark to push it into exceptional. Watch out for the Dave Clark Five, in their early days before they became one of the Beatles' main rivals, as the band in the nightclub scene.