A reasonable but ultimately frustrating crime drama based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Larry (Peter Cookson) is a university student down on his luck, he hasn't got any money, he can't even pay his landlady never mind next year's course fees. He pawns a watch to Professor Stanley (Francis Pierlot) though only gets a pittance. Larry begins to consider a way out of his predicament. No one likes Stanley, maybe he could take the money from him...
Larry kills Stanley but panics and flees before he can take any money. Then he receives an unexpected windfall, but Police Captain Burke (Warren William) is on the case and is suspicious of Larry (who to be honest looks like the embodiment of guilt). To his girlfriend Eileen (Anne Gwynne) he confesses and decides to come clean to the police, but there is a last final twist to come...
Not a bad film though the ending does ruin things somewhat (and we won't spoil that). Larry starts off entitled but soon collapses into jelly. For a low budget crime film its fine, except the ending.
