Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist.
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
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Appointment With Crime-1946- William Hartnell Raymond Lovell Robert Beatty Joyce Howard
Appointment with Crime is a 1946 British crime film directed by John Harlow. William Hartnell (Leo Martin) feels he has been set up in a jewellery robbery that ...
Appointment with crime (1946) - the opening scenes
Leo Martin (William Hartnell) seeks revenge in this opening scene from the 1946 crime drama 'Appointment with Crime'
Appointment with Crime (1946) - "One smash two grab three away..."
William Hartnell stars as Leo Martin in the first British post-war crime film Appointment with Crime released in Nov 1946; with Raymond Lovell as Loman.
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