No Road Back

• Skip Homeier: John Railton
• Paul Carpenter: Clem Hayes
• Patricia Dainton: Beth
• Norman Wooland: Inspector Harris
• Margaret Rawlings: Mrs. Railton
• Eleanor Summerfield: Marguerite
• Alfie Bass: Rudge Harvey
• Sean Connery: Spike
• Robert Bruce: Sgt Brooks
• Thomas Gallagher: night-watchman
• Philip Ray: Garage to

The blind spider ( original title: No Road Back ) is a British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully in 1957 with Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton and Norman Wooland in the lead roles. The film was of Gibraltar Films Ltd.. produced. In supporting roles Alfie Bass and Sean Connery play.

Action

Mrs. Railton, who is blind and deaf, leads as the owner of a nightclub, an iron regiment. To fund the medical education of her son John, her every means. As a blind spider in her web she leads a gang of diamond thieves. When John comes back from school his mother wants to land one last big coup. But things go unpredictably out of control. A security guard is killed during a raid. John is set by his mother about their complicity in knowledge, after which the situation completely escalates.

Reviews

" A blind and deaf lady steals and murders - out of love for her son - at the head of a gang of thieves. Average thriller without great tension. "

Production Notes

The conductor was Philip Martell. The editor comes from W. H. Lindop, the costumes gave Evelyn Gibbs, the buildings created John Stoll. George and Nina Claff Broe distinguished themselves responsible for masks and hairstyles. The production line had Robert E. Dearing. Locations for the film were the Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on -Thames, in the county of Surrey in England.