Entertaining but dated

This is a real period piece and it's entertaining to compare this with today's detective stories. The Gollywog Club in Paddington?? I can't see that lasting long now!

And Robert Shaw in a coma - nowadays he'd be hooked up to hundreds of tubes and wires, but in this film he's just lying there in a bed with virtually no medical equipment.

And all the Press showing up in the hall of the house! And the little boy would have been taken away for medical examinations, not just allowed to go home with his father.

Perhaps I ought not to compare really, it's a different era after all, and this is a nice bit of escapism for a dull afternoon.

The synopsis writer is right though, Gregson is not tough enough to play a tough guy! I kept thinking of his 'Genevieve' character. He is incredibly rude to his superior officer though!