High Jump

1959
4| 1h6m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 May 1959 Released
Producted By: Danziger Productions Ltd.
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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After he accidentally causes the death of his partner, trapeze artist Bill Ryan leaves the circus and sinks into an alcoholic mire of self-pity. Things look up when elegant Jackie Field takes interest in Bill, but she hides a sinister motive. Ignoring Kitty, the shopgirl who adores him, Bill falls for Jackie and joins her gang of thieves, but the daring stunt she has him perform may lead to disaster.

Genre

Thriller, Crime

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Director

Godfrey Grayson

Production Companies

Danziger Productions Ltd.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
JohnHowardReid The idea is certainly novel, but the plot, dialogue and characters are not. In fact, the story is full of holes and wild implausibilities, especially in the last five minutes when the long-awaited climax at last transpires. Even here, the action is rather tame; but elsewhere there is no action at all, just seemingly endless talk. On the credit side of the ledger, however, the girls (Lisa Daniely as the femme fatale, and Leigh Madison as the official heroine) are fairly attractive. But on the other hand, Godfrey Grayson's relentlessly routine direction stacks up as a distinct negative. Production values also register as strictly minor. The sets are cramped and the writers have mustered all the usual "B"-grade devices of filling-in-time. The movie's length could come down to 20 minutes with ease. Colin Tapley is a security guard. Nora Gordon is the landlady, Mrs Barlow. Production manager: John Draper. Assistant director: Geoffrey Helman. Sound editor: John Smith. Howell was the sound supervisor.
GUENOT PHILIPPE Wow, what a good surprise this time again!! OK this is not a masterpiece, but not a lousy film either. The screenplay is from the great Brian Clemens, please...The story of an ex circus acrobat, now a TV repairman, who falls in love, a real trap, with a beautiful brunette, a perfect "femme fatale", who pushes him in a daring heist. A robbery where there must be a good air artist stunt to switch an alarm system off. But the lead female character of the movie is the accomplice of a real killer, the master thief of the heist...Unfortunately, the following is foreseeable. No surprise in the ending. But the 65mn of this movie are not long at all to spend. Not too much talk.Try it.