The Marked One
Year: 1963
Genre: Crime
Studio: Planet Film Productions
Director: Francis Searle
Cast: William Lucas, Patrick Jordan, Laurie Leigh, David Gregory, Arthur Lovegrove, Marianne Stone
Crew: Jim Connock (Editor), Tom Blakeley (Producer), Francis Searle (Director), Geoffrey Kidd (Boom Operator), Jimmy Evans (Makeup Artist), Stuart Freeman (Assistant Director)
Runtime: 65 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1963
IMDb: 6.80/10 by 6 users
Popularity: 0
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

William Lucas - never the most versatile of actors - is "Mason", a man who works on the docks and lives in a B&B. It turns out that he has a bit of a criminal past, and when his erstwhile colleagues get the idea that he knows the whereabouts of some valuable bank note plates, they kidnap his daughter who lives with his estranged wife "Kay" (Zena Walker). The thing is, the man has no idea where they are - and with the police "Mayne" (Patrick Jordan) on one side, his wife and the gangsters all also on his back his options are limiting and his desperation growing. Largely devoid of any jeopardy - I always found that thrillers from this period that involved children always lacked any real sense of menace - it's a bit of a ramshackle affair with one too many half-baked scenarios thrown in to try and sustain what is essentially a bit of a non-story. Clearly made on a shoestring budget by the experienced if not exactly innovative Francis Searle, it meanders to a conclusion that is hardly a surprise to anyone. It's adequate afternoon cinema fayre this, but production line stuff.