Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...

• Angel Productions
• Associated British Picture Corporation
• Alfred Lynch
• Kathleen Breck
• Eric Portman
• Diana Dors
• Kathleen Harrison
• Freda Jackson
• Finlay Currie
• Marie Ney