Johnny, You're Wanted is a 1956 British crime second feature[1] film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring John Slater and Alfred Marks.

[2] It was written by Frank Driscoll and Michael Leighton based on the 1953 BBC television series of the same name which also starred Slater.

The film features strongwoman Joan Rhodes performing her stage act.

[3] Johnny is a long-distance lorry driver returning to London from a provincial delivery, after having taken in a show by Joan Rhodes on the way.

Late at night he stops to give a lift to an attractive female hitchhiker whose car has broken down and who is in a hurry to get to back to London.

Later, Johnny pulls in to a transport café to make a telephone call and buy a coffee.

The police take Johnny to the scene where the dead girl was found and then to where he picked her up.

She goes to the laundrette with the package and a man comes in speaks a foreign language to the policewomen but when she does not understand he says he must be mistaken.

The police deduce that Balsamo's customers mail him their date of birth and at his shows buy a horoscope from him.

The police try to arrest Balsamo but he opens the door on his cabin to jump out and is hit by a train heading in the other direction.

For the former, the cap fits fairly well, though his playing is monotonous and one becomes tired of the phoney "working class" jokes and atmosphere.

But Alfred Marks' 'act' is artificially dragged in, and holds up a story which is otherwise reasonably efficient, though slow.