Assassin For Hire (1951)

Assassin For Hire (1951) is a contract killer stricken with remorse murder sleuth and plod procedural family hitman Limey British film noir with Sydney Tafler voicing an uncomfortably cliched and inappropriate Italian accent, a secret life or identity noir, in which, pretending to be a rare stamp dealer, a Tafler man supports his wife, and in an embarrasmenta of mama-style Italiante clichés, his musically talented younger brother, lives a secret nocturnal life as a hitman, nipping out of the same card game at the same café, to bump off unworthy Limey marks.

Wide Boy (1952)

Wide Boy (1952) is a post war Limey spiv noir which is a blend of police procedural, classic fated weakened male lead noir, lousy husband noir, blackmail noir, and the typical descent into crime downward trajectory film noir which was popular as a medium backdrop in the dispositif-forming 1950s, when either teenagers, war-shirkers, and unwise family men move from one relatively innocuous crime — the vending of black market stockings and fags — for wor post-war British purposes 'cigarettes' — to theft, to blackmail  — inevitably to murder.

Seamy Trümmerfilm glamour and ethical collapse collide in this low grade limey film noir.