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    • Source: The Hi-Jackers

      • The Hi-Jackers is a 1963 black and white British crime thriller film written and directed by Jim O'Connolly, starring Anthony Booth and Jacqueline Ellis.


      Plot


      Long-distance independent lorry driver Terry meets homeless and unemployed Shirley at a transport cafe and gives her a lift. His vehicle, carrying a valuable shipment of whisky, is then hijacked under cover of a fake road accident. Who tipped off the hijackers about the route Terry would take? Police Inspector Grayson investigates.


      Cast


      Anthony Booth as Terry McKinley
      Jacqueline Ellis as Shirley
      Derek Francis as Jack Carter
      Patrick Cargill as Inspector Grayson
      Glynn Edwards as Bluey
      David Gregory as Pete
      Harold Goodwin as Scouse
      Tony Wager as Smithy
      Arthur English as Bert
      Michael Beint as Forbes
      Tommy Eytle as Sam Reynolds
      Romo Gorrara as Joe
      Ronald Hines as Jim Brady
      Douglas Livingstone as Tim
      Marianne Stone as Lil


      Critical reception


      Monthly Film Bulletin said: "One or two aspirations towards originality – Carter's proficiency as a cook, a gangster's almost prudish refusal to take advantage of Shirley's helplessness – cannot disguise the formulary nature of this crime melodrama. The plot is thin and unconvincing; the heroine is one of those tiresomely well-spoken young women whose bursts of spirit (she is not averse to moral blackmail) strike one as both incongruous and unsympathetic. The lorry-drivers are quite well characterised, and Derek Francis brings a touch of class to the gourmet-mastermind which seems, less aptly, to have spilled over into the film as a whole. For a struggling haulage contractor Terry has a remarkably luxurious apartment; there's something gratuitously "snob", too, about Patrick Cargill's supercilious police inspector."
      The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "This low-budget crime thriller from the Butcher's studio is set in the rough-and-ready world of trucking. However, British lorry drivers don't have the cinematic glamour of their American counterparts, so identifying the familiar British faces – Anthony Booth (Tony Blair's father-in-law), Patrick Cargill, Glynn Edwards – is the main point of interest here."


      References




      External links


      The Hi-Jackers at IMDb
      The Hi-Jackers at ReelStreets

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