Hard-hitting and noncompromising, this Alun Owen screenplay shows the criminal's life in a way it seldom has been seen before--all the sleazy characters, all the dark realities of existence in a jail. Baker, inside for three years, rises like cream to the top of the con population. While
twiddling his thumbs and cooling his heels, he plans a large racetrack robbery. When he gets out, he pulls the job. Then his money washer informs him that the agreed-upon percentage for laundering the cash has gone up. Rather than pay such a figure, Baker buries the loot in a desolate spot--but
not before taking a nice hunk to buy a bauble for current-flame Saad. This annoys old-fl...
Released:
1960
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins