The Marked One

Plot summary

Truck driver Don Mason is an ex-con who served time for involvement in a forgery racket, and is now trying to go straight. A blackmailer demands the plates used in the forgery, threatening Mason's wife and kidnapping their child.

Cast

• William Lucas as Don Mason
• Zena Walker as Kay Mason
• Patrick Jordan as Inspector Mayne
• Laurie Leigh as Maisie
• David Gregory as Ed Jones
• Arthur Lovegrove as Benson
• Marianne Stone as Mrs Benson
• Kim Tracy as Wanda
• Edward Ogden as Nevil Stone
• Frederick Peisley as Mossie
• Dorothy Gordon as Ruby
• Frank Sieman as Lacey
• Brian Nissen as Charles Warren
• Lynn Pinkney as Sally
• Richard McNeff as Inspector Rogers

Production

The film was made at MGM Studios, Borehamwood.

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said, "Spot-the-blackmailer crime thriller, quite neatly built but sleazy and slackly motivated (why is everyone so crassly opposed to going to the police?). The direction is nondescript; William Lucas, Zena Walker and Brian Nissen act well despite stereotyped roles."

Kine Weekly wrote: "A straightforward story of skulduggery has been directed in a straightforward way, and the secret of who is the master villain is reasonably well kept. The pace, so essential in this type of tale is, however, uneven. It does, however, work up to a rousing climax of a chase and fight and there are some good incidental scraps. William Lucas does an adequate job with the tough, but essentially good-hearted hero, Don, and a charming touch of homely romance is provided by Zena Walker, as his wife. A competent supporting cast does all that is required of it."

References

References

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