Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 27th November 2020, 6:10 AMThe Shakedown (1960)
BLOODY GOOD FILM!
TPTV said this was 1959, so just passed my personal choice of 1950s films, and what a film!
Revealing the nasty side of the London sex trade, where Terence Morgan comes out of prison to restart his sex trade, only to find an equally vicious Harry H Corbett had taken the racket over, and so basically with now no criminal friends he can call on he decides to take a different tack by setting up a nudie studio (with legit photographer Donald Pleasance), which also has a "side-line" in blackmailing gullible married businessmen being photographed secretly with undressed models.
Corbett tries to smash Morgan's business, but revenge is inevitable and Morgan becomes the big name in the sex trade again, BUT oversteps the mark when he pushes one blackmail customer too far.
Robert Beatty is the police inspector trying to keep the peace, and there's the gorgeous Hazel Court, Bill Owen, Eddie Byrne, Jackie Collins and Angela Douglas (Kenneth More's first wife).
Morgan drives a very nice two tone Jag MkVIII saloon too!
Highly recommended - see it if you can!
On again next Tuesday in the early hours - 02:10