Acting
Jack La Rue's Slim is pure predatory charisma.
Direction
Clowes smuggles American pulp into British respectability.
Director
St. John Legh Clowes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The British press called it 'the worst film I have ever seen' — it made a fortune anyway.
Adapted from James Hadley Chase's novel, which he wrote using a dictionary of American slang he'd never actually heard spoken.
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