Impact (1963 film)

Impact
Directed by	Peter Maxwell
Produced by	John I. Phillips Ronald Liles
Written by	Peter Maxwell Conrad Phillips
Starring	Conrad Phillips George Pastell
Music by	Johnny Gregory
Cinematography	Gerald Moss
Edited by	David Hawkins
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service
Release date	1963
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Impact is a 1963 British crime thriller directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Conrad Phillips with the pair writing the script. The pair formed a production company Arriba Productions, but Maxwell went to Australia to shoot the Whiplash TV series and never returned to England.

Seeking vengeance for newspaper articles written about him, crooked Soho nightclub owner 'The Duke' (George Pastell), kidnaps crime reporter Jack Moir (Conrad Phillips), and frames him for theft. While serving a two year prison sentence, Moir plots his revenge, and upon release, embarks on a scheme to clear his name.

The Movie Scene wrote, "Impact" is the sort of old British movie which you stumble across one day on one of those channels which appear well down the list which some people don't even know exist. It is also one of those movies which you start watching and an hour later it is over and you can't remember a great deal of what has happened. The reason why is that it is devoid of excitement and seems to have been made hastily on limited funds forcing the writer to use lost of dialogue to explain things rather than showing it"; while the Radio Times wrote "...this programme filler, produced in a matter of days on a shoestring budget, contains no surprises in the plot...Maxwell just about keeps what action there is ticking over, but he is fighting a losing battle with a cast that is substandard, even for a British B-movie"; whereas Sky Movies called it a "lively thriller about a reporter who wages a vendetta against a treacherous Soho gangster. George Pastell, as the villain, and Anita West, as a moll, give competent performances."

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