Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuDetective Harry Clegg must track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.Detective Harry Clegg must track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.Detective Harry Clegg must track down the crazed prostitute responsible for a string of murders.
Fotos
- Dirty Giant
- (as Mike Crane)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesThe two 'country houses' in the film, supposedly in Oxfordshire and Surrey, are actually the same building, Kenwood House in the north London suburb of Highgate. The two scenes were shot at the front and the back of the house.
- Zitate
Harry Clegg: [narrating] That's me. My name is Harry Clegg. I'm a private eye. I'm also a cold-blooded killer, a lecher, a liar and a thief. My big problem is I've been a loser since the day I was born. I was returning from a little job in Brighton, having picked up a tenner for my part as co-respondent in a divorce case. I hadn't worked for four months. If that was work, I liked it. She turned out to be a real swinger. And it proved to be one hell of a job. Why my client failed to get his divorce, I'll never understand. Unfortunately, he didn't. And he wanted his money back so I left town fast. So fast in fact, I forgot to fill my petrol tank. And here I was. I'd heard of being taken for a ride but being taken for a walk seemed ridiculous. I couldn't figure out who these zombies were. Then I looked over my shoulder and saw my client with a shovel. I figured he wasn't prospecting. And I began to have a feeling of unease.
- VerbindungenFeatured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005)
The film seems to be a (very) low budget mixture of Get Carter and an American hardboiled detective film. Harry Clegg is an ex-cop turned P.I. and on the dishonest side (and on the borderline incompetent side). At the beginning of the movie, Clegg is ambushed in the country by one of his less than satisfied customers who has paid two goons to kill Clegg. After dispensing with the three, Clegg returns to London and gets another job. The well-to-do Lord Cruikshank has received a threatening letter that he wants Clegg to investigate. Cruikshank believes the man responsible is an embezzler who was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but Cruikshank is not too forthcoming with other details. Clegg calls up a lady friend still on the force (Clegg has a lot of lady friends who do his work for him). Clegg learns that the embezzler died in prison twelve years earlier. Meanwhile, a female killer with rifle is eliminating some of Cruikshank's former associates.
The film does not have much of a mystery. Most of the film consists of Clegg (the not exactly dashing Gilbert Wynne) wandering around, sleeping with an unlikely attractive woman, and getting into fights with goons. The film holds the viewer just interested enough to keep him watching but not enough for him to get involved in the plot or the characters. The action scenes are hard to judge out of the correct aspect ratio. I was disappointed that, in spite of the way it is played up in the trailer, Clegg never squares off against the female hitwoman, nor is her character as prominent as she appears from the preview.
Clegg was directed by Lindsay Shonteff, a director that not many people have much love for. I am not quite sure why. I have sat through much worse than Clegg from lesser directors like Al Adamson and Ted V. Mikels, both of whom have a cult following. I rather like Shonteff's The Fast Kill. Clegg is not as good, but it is watchable enough on a boring afternoon. I probably wouldn't watch the film again, even in a better, correctly letterboxed copy.