Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club, he discovers that Oldchester are desperate for promotion as they stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...
Acting
Donald Houston's desperate energy as the scheming nephew.
Production
Authentic 1953 lower-league football atmosphere.
Director
Montgomery Tully
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Montgomery Tully cranked out B-movies like factory products — this was one of four he directed in 1953 alone.
The fictional Oldchester reflects real post-war English football culture where small clubs lived or died on local patronage and community obsession.
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