Written by James M. Tate / 10/24/2025 / No comments / anita west , ballard berkeley , british neo noir , conrad phillips , george pastell , john rees , linda marlowe , peter maxwell , sixties , wrong man
PETER MAXWELL'S 'IMPACT' WITH CONRAD PHILLIPS & ANITA WEST
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| Conrad Phillips in IMPACT Year: 1963 Rating: *** |
The low-budget British studio Butchers turned out film noir-type crime-dramas like they were television episodes, playing out like something more from the small screen than big...
And that's not a negative critique since they almost always pay off with good stories and great actors, in this case an equally edgy and severe wrong-man/good guy and nightclub-owning villain...
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| Anita West and John Rees in IMPACT |
Director Peter Maxwell had used shady-looking George Pastell in BLIND SPOT as a lowly-thug, and here he merely hires those rotten types to kill lead actor Conrad Phillips...
As a hard-boiled reporter who wrote exposes about him, and that he'd gotten locked up so that, once released, the beguiled hero spends the rest of the 60-minute programmer seeking revenge...
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| Conrad Phillips in IMPACT |
Alongside a possibly double-crossing ex-cellmate and nice-girl/workmate Linda Marlowe, the scene-stealer is the kingpin's sexy, lounge-singing moll (and Marlowe's doppelganger) Anita West...
Manipulating all three male characters with a combination of faux innocence and cunning charm, she deserved either a bigger role, or another feature entirely dedicated to her seductive mind-games.
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| Anita West in IMPACT with George Pastell |
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| Linda Marlowe and Ballard Berkeley in IMPACT with George Pastell |
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| Linda Marlowe and Ballard Berkeley in IMPACT |
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| Linda Marlowe in IMPACT |
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| George Pastell in IMPACT |
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| Conrad Phillips in IMPACT with Linda Marlowe |
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| Anita West in IMPACT with George Pastell |
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| Conrad Phillips in IMPACT |
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| Jean Trend in IMPACT |
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| Anita West in IMPACT |
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| Conrad Phillips and John Rees in IMPACT |
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| Anita West in IMPACT with George Pastell |
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| Anita West in IMPACT |
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