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...
Alfred Lynch
as Joe Beckett
Kathleen Breck
as Ilsa Barnes
Eric Portman
as Richard Dyce
Diana Dors
as Georgia
Kathleen Harrison
as Mrs. Beckett
Freda Jackson
as Mrs. Hartley
Finlay Currie
as Gash
Marie Ney
as Mildred Dyce
Harold Lang
as Silent
Peter Reynolds
as Jacko
Sean Kelly
as Larry
Patrick Wymark
as Father Hogan
