Terror Street (aka 36 Hours) (1953)

A U.S. Air Force pilot (Dan Duryea) flies into London to find out why he hasn't heard from his wife (Elsie Albin) lately. Instead, he's knocked out and when he wakes up he finds her dead ..... and he becomes the chief suspect! It's a race against time to prove he didn't do it. Directed by Montgomery Tully, there's not much of interest here. It's a Hammer programmer with a miscast Dan Duryea, an actor more suited to sleazy villains than tough talking heroes. Robert Mitchum, he's not! It's pretty sloppy film-making with flaws that could have easily been corrected by giving the screenplay a tighter look. Which isn't to say I wasn't modestly entertained but it's not the kind of movie that sticks with you and I'm sure if I watch the film again in, say 3 or 4 years, I'll completely have forgotten the plot. With Gudrun Ure, Lee Patterson, Marianne Stone, John Chandos, Eric Pohlmann and Harold Lang.