The Shakedown (also known as The Naked Mirror) is a 1959 black and white British crime-drama film directed by John Lemont, starring Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, and Donald Pleasence.
[citation needed] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This tentative and equivocal effort to cash in on the Wolfenden Report remains undistinguished for good or ill.
There is enough nudity for an X Certificate, but it is all very prim; enough action to maintain interest, but no tension; routine coshings, but no sadism; cheap settings, but not shoddiness.
Except for the error, or possibly box-office stratagem, of giving someone as good-natured and refined of speech as Terence Morgan a vice spiv's role, everything is fairly competently done.
It tells how a comely policewoman, aided by the vice squad, busts a nude photography racket, created to circumvent the Street Offences Act, and ends a gang war.
The play, vigorously acted, shrewdly directed and lavishly mounted, seldom taxes the imagination, but, apart from one nude picture contains no crude gimmicks.