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Enjoyable movie but some distracting defects


This movie is beset with a couple of defects that are difficult to ignore, and even the story has a major defect. As someone else has noted, the music doesn't gel properly with the action or the dialogue, and with the two English brothers played by a Canadian and an American actor the accents are somewhat distracting. American actress Terry Moore does helpfully explain that she grew up in the U.S., though. ☺

The defect in the story (at least as it's represented in the movie) is that the viewer is able to work out the main crook by a process of elimination before it's explicitly revealed. I wonder if the original story has other characters that aren't represented in the movie (but should be, perhaps).

Exacerbating the latter defect is the fact that the cover of Alpha Video's DVD release of this movie more or less gives away the ending!!!

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