It's not a noir by any stretch. Richard Conte stars as a race car driver named Peter Wells. He has had a streak of losing races lately and wants to be back on top in the worst way.
His beautiful wife Patricia (Mari Aldon) wants him to stop racing all together. During one race Peter's best friend, 'Pic' Dallapiccola (George Coulouris) is fatally injured it really tears Peter apart and he considers quitting.
However, he decides otherwise and decides to enter one final race. Patricia leaves him because he loves racing more than his life with her. The race begins and Peter puts everything he has into winning one final time.
This film isn't bad at all, but it really didn't belong in the set I have been reviewing over the last month. It's a standard drama and has no ties at all to noir, but I guess it was included to make the set a 8 film set and because it is early Hammer.
Mari Aldon looks great in this film, as she did in all the movies she did. The rest of the cast includes Alec Mango, Peter Illing, James Copeland and Meredith Edwards.
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