Comedy drama starring Tom Walls and Lilli Palmer. Jack Drake is an accomplished thief and master of disguise who robs the rich to help those less fortunate. But when a baroness promises to discover his true identity, she inadvertently places him in grave danger.
Not the children's TV show, but a vehicle for Tom Walls, well-loved star of the Aldwych farces during the 1920s. He plays burglar Jack Drake, a sort of "Robbing Hood" who lifts from the rich to help the poor. His success makes other local crooks jealous, and thereby hangs this awfully thin tale, enlivened only by the youthful presence of the lovely Lilli Palmer as co-star. A lighter touch would have sped this along nicely, for it takes a long time to get up to speed, and today seems very dated indeed. Still, in its time, this average British film secured a release in the States as The Man with 100 Faces and did Gainsborough's reputation as a production house no end of good.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Jack Drake | Tom Walls |
| Baroness von Haltse | Lilli Palmer |
| Sculpie | Noel Madison |
| Tony Davenport | Edmund Breon |
| Hambro Golding | Leon M Lion |
| Burge | Charles Heslop |
| Annie | Ethel Griffies |
| Inspector Benting | H G Stoker |
| Wally Astill | Michael Shepley |
| Inspector Lunt | Henry B Longhurst |
| Lug | Edmund Dalby |
| Morella | Tarver Penna |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Albert de Courville |
