Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

JohnHowardReid An A.C.T. (Association of Cinema Technicians) Production, made at Nettlefold Studios. U.K. release through Monarch: July 1954. No U.S. theatrical release, but distributed to TV through Modern Sound Pictures. Australian release through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: 31 October 1955. 5,563 feet. 61 minutes. Censored by 90 seconds in Australia.SYNOPSIS: A member of the security staff at a London airport loses heavily at the dog races, thus falling into the clutches of a blackmailing gangster.VIEWER'S GUIDE: The British Board of Film Censors found no cuts at all were necessary in the original film in order that it might qualify for a "Universal" certificate, allowing it to be exhibited without any restraints on advertising and notification that it was suitable for screening before all audiences, including young children.COMMENT: An excellent example of the worst in British B- picture=making. With the exception of the engaging Susan Stephen, the players are both unattractive and uninteresting. The story, supporting this parade of no-talent, is even less appealing. Mercilessly padded out with circular, repetitious and boringly inconsequential dialogue, "Dangerous Cargo" is a chore to sit through. Admittedly, director John Harlow attempts a few game tries to lift the movie's audience appeal, including a spot of location shooting at a real aerodrome, and a laudable endeavor to make a few packing cases go a long way at the climax, but he is stymied by the quota quickie budget and the utter poverty of talent in almost all the cast and technical crew - let alone the impoverished screen writing!

Leofwine_draca A nice little B-movie thriller from mid-'50s Britain. The star of the show is one Jack Watling, who plays a mild-mannered airport employee who hooks up with an old war buddy (Terence Alexander) and embarks on a short-lived gambling career. Unfortunately for him, before long he's in debt with a loan shark, and a gang of bullion robbers have him in their sights. How will he get out of it?This is a short, snappy thriller, well-paced and with an interesting story and characters to propel it along. The leading characters are flawed but a little too wholesome to really get behind, but the supporting characters are really interesting. Especially Alexander, playing against type as a spiv sort of character, and he's excellent - charming, and ruthless too. Watch out for John Le Mesurier being completely unconvincing as an Italian called Luigi!

malcolmgsw This is a film produced by the technicians union ACT.Presumably this was to provide employment for its studio technicians.However this is the sort of film that helped close cinemas by the hundreds at this time thus putting their cinema staff out of work.Much of this film was clichéd when it was made.Thus the anonymous boss who speaks to his gang by radio is a device first used in the 2 film versions of Edgar Wallaces "The Frog" which date back to the 1930s.The end of the film is slightly farcical.With the cops and robbers laying into one another ,the boss suddenly produces a weapon,and everyone,including his gang members stand still!Obviously none of the police thought that the gang would be armed.As mentioned in the other review John Le Mesurier does seem to have trouble in his role of "Luigi" in consistently maintaining an accent throughout.So what is supposed to be a dramatic moment loses its impact when Le Mes opens his mouth.Not one of his better efforts.

new_market41 The plot of DANGEROUS CARGO has most of the basic ingredients of a standard mid-fifties British B film. Tom Matthews is a trusted precious-cargo handler at a main airport. He has a chance meeting with an old wartime colleague Harry who takes Tom and his wife Janie to the dog track and they gratefully win some money. However Harry is chauffeur to a gang leader who intends to mount a raid on the airport secure vault but they need inside information about when precious cargos arrive. So Harry takes Tom to the dog track again and encourages him to bet but Tom ends up heavily in debt to a bookmaker, money that he cannot pay. This leaves him open to blackmail by Luigi, one the gang leaders, who forces Tom to reveal when the next precious cargo is due.The film offers a fairly rare leading role for easy-going actor Jack Watling but his acting abilities are barely tested with this one. Susan Stephen who looks and sounds uncannily like Haley Mills plays Janie his wife. The villains try to be classic 1950s B film stereotypes complete with foreign accents (genuine in the case of Karel Stepanek who plays the gang leader Pliny and phoney in the case of second-in-command Luigi played by John Le Mesurier). In fact the latter's 'foreign' accent cannot be sustained and he frequently lapses into 'home counties'. Pliny preserves his anonymity from the other motley gang members by addressing them from an adjoining room with the aid of a microphone, speaker and two-way mirror. It's hilarious stuff and a novel system similar to that used by villain 'The Voice' in the early 1960s British TV serial 'Gary Halliday '. It's a bit of a shock though to see popular actor Terence Alexander playing the two-timing Harry but he is smooth and convincing.As a British B film aficionado I found it mildly entertaining but not a lot.