The Ticket of Leave Man

CinemaSerf

2022-06-20T15:00:19Z

Not my favourite Tod Slaughter outing, this one - it takes too long to get going. A young man is stitched up by "the Tiger" and ends up doing time for forging ten pound notes. When he is released he finds a job as a clerk to a wealthy man and Slaughter again tries to use him - this time so he can rob the man's safe of a reputed £10,000! Meantime, he has also got his evil eye on the young man's fiancée and he positively drools as he tries to manoeuvre himself into position for the cash and the girl! The concept is actually quite clever; a sort of Robin Hood in reverse as he gamely uses those he is ostensibly helping to cover his own nefarious tracks; but this one just ambles along a little too much for me and there are one too many songs sung in the park that detract from the normally sinister nature of his films. I still quite enjoyed it, though.