Runaway teenagers Mike and Jackie, who have been sleeping rough nearby, are captured by the criminals, but they escape and alert the police.

Little tension is created, the final chase is got under way but concluded off-screen, and efforts to be with-it or saucy on-screen merely embarrass.

Terry Palmer's pleasantly sympathetic manner of acting, as the young eloper, suggests that he deserves a better part.

"[4] Boxoffice wrote: "An exciting and suspenseful little programmer ... has thrills for the action devotees and a pleasing teenage romance to attract the younger set.

If it doesn't quite fulfil this promise, it's still offers a more interesting critique of prevailing social attitudes and values that many films of the period.