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Ambush in Leopard Street is a low budget 1962 British 'B' black and white crime film directed by J. Henry Piperno and starring James Kenney, Michael Brennan and Bruce Seton. It was written by Ahmed Faroughy and Bernard Spicer.




Premise


Harry is a small time crook who plans one last job before he retires, but things do not go quite according to plan. With his sidekick Nimmo, the plan is to ambush a truck containing £500,000 of diamonds in Leopard Street, but heavy security means recruiting a larger criminal gang than usual, and the inexperienced newcomers may derail Harry's scheme.




Cast


James Kenney as Johnny
Michael Brennan as Harry
Bruce Seton as Nimmo
Norman Rodway as Kegs
Jean Harvey as Jean
Pauline Delaney as Cath
Marie Conmee as Myra
Charles Mitchell as Big George
Lawrence Crain as Danny
Muriel O'Hanlon as Lily
Sheila Donald as Val
Jack O'Reilly as Hibbs




Critical reception


The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Even the climax, the actual ambush, lacks punch in this routine and unconvincing crime thriller. The acting is adequate, but suffers from confined production and a more than usually weak story."
Kine Weekly described the film as: "a dicy British 'second'."
Chibnall and McFarlane in The British 'B' Film called the film an "impoverished crook drama."
In Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema Philip Gillet wrote: "[J. Henry Piperno's] direction can be pedestrian, the fight between the two gangs being cursory and clumsy, though constraints on time and budget doubtless contributed to this. The language of the cockney villains sounds contrived, but what the film has in its favour is a story with the stark simplicity of Greek tragedy: man uses woman, man becomes emotionally involved with her, man lets her down."




Home media


The film was released on DVD in 2013.




References






External links


Ambush in Leopard Street at IMDb

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