The above is a scene from a 1957 film called Hell Drivers, which just so happens to star the late Patrick McGoohan and the recently retired Sean Connery. There’s not terribly much noteworthy about the scene, or indeed the film, which is about a corrupt gravel hauling company run by McGoohan’s “Red” Redman, except for the meeting of future spies — McGoohan, who later went on to become John Drake in Danger Man and Number Six in the Prisoner, and Sean Connery who entered the international spotlight as 007. Elsewhere in the movie, we also see David McCallum, who is perhaps best known by the world as Illya Kurayakin in the Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Also, you can see in this scene two of my other favorite actors: Gordon Jackson, who played the ill-fated Carswell in The IPCRESS File, and “Mac” in one of the all-time great films, The Great Escape; and Herbert Lom, whom I will always associate with the role of Inspector Clouseau’s long-suffering Chief Inspector Dreyfus, as Gino/”Spaghetti”.
Like I said, not the greatest movie, but a good, hardboiled, English look at the working class, and has a (OK, I’ll admit it’s tenuous) secret agent connection as well.
