William Smith, a middle-class school teacher from a suburb in London, returns home one day to find his wife Gilda has run off with her boyfriend and taken all his possessions with her. With the help of his sister, Susan, they begin a search for Gilda, and are drawn into the British crime world and become caught in the cross-fire of two crime lords who have been fighting each other all their lives: the kind-natured Teddy Middlemass, and the sadistic Mr. Jezzard.
1 July 1973, Ealing, London, England, UK
January 8, 1919 in Blean, Kent, England, UK
4 October 1953, Hertfordshire, England, UK
21 May 1953, London, England, UK
28 August 1964, Surrey, England, UK
19 January 1940, Hackney, London, England, UK
13 November 1976, Cork, Ireland
24 April 1953, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
29 February 1952, London, England, UK
8 June 1920, Plumstead, London, England, UK
September 28, 1959 in London, England, UK
25 March 1935, Vienna, Austria
October 31, 1952 in London, England, UK
1954, Fulham, London, England, UK
2 January 1947, Tokyo, Japan
17 December 1956, Ealing, London, England, UK
11 March 1952, Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK
22 November 1954, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England, UK

