Panic

Release Date: 1963-01-01

Overview: In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.

Rating: 5.7 / 10

Cast

Janine Gray

as Janine Heining

Glyn Houston

as Mike

Dyson Lovell

as Johnnie Cobb

Duncan Lamont

as Inspector Saunders

Julie Mendez

as Lucette

Crew

John Gilling - Writer
Guido Coen - Story
John Gilling - Director
Geoffrey Faithfull - Director of Photography
Bill Lewthwaite - Editor

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

Lots of 1960s jazz-style music sets the tone for this disappointingly run-of-the-mill crime noir from John Gilling. Janine Gray works for a jeweller in London's famous Hatton Garden when she falls vic...