Hot Ice is a 1952 British second feature ('B')[1] comedy crime film directed and written by Kenneth Hume and starring John Justin, Barbara Murray and Ivor Barnard.
Edwin Carson, a shady jewel collector, invites hard-up Jim Henderson and his jewellery-heir pal Freddie Usher to spend the weekend at his country house, along with other guests who all own precious jewellery.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The players do their best to infuse some life into the not very exciting or plausible plot of this thriller.
"[3] Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture, adapted from a story by Alan Melville, is nearly all talk, but very few of the quips are sharp.
The thrills, mainly mechanical, are also a trifle forced; but, even so, the odd mixture, handled by an equally screwy cast, becomes moderately enteriaining as it shuffles to its unexpected close.