This is a Runyonesque, Lock Stock… piece of violent mockney in which three, possibly four, teams of crooks are out to seize a million quid when London bagman Jimmy the Gent (Peter Wight) comes to a lurid Southend to collect protection money from Shrewd Eddie, the local Mr Big (Paul Freeman). Each character on first appearance is identified by their nickname and a form of confectionery that they jokily resemble (eg Shrewd Eddie is the Gob Stopper). The film is smart, though not as smart as it thinks. There are eight brutal murders, and this must be the first movie in which a gangster's moll likes to have sex with two men on the same day because she likes to feel the different sperms doing battle inside her.