- An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
- Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is a low-level member of a smash-and-grab gang run by shady dance-club owner Loman (Raymond Lovell), who is cajoled into a risky job on a major jewelry store. When the robbery goes wrong, and Martin is caught (and his wrists broken), the hood keeps silent and does his stretch in prison -- all along, he nurses a grudge against Loman and his driver Hatchett (Victor Weske) for running out on him. And that grudge grows to full-blown, murderous vengeance when Loman blows off the newly-released Martin as no use to the gang (as his hands aren't what they used to be). Now Martin plans to get even by squeezing Loman dry of everything he has, starting with his peace-of-mind -- he implicates the club owner in a murder, while planning a seemingly perfect alibi for himself, and also manages to latch on to the ring-leader that Loman is fronting for, "respectable" art dealer Gregory Lang (Herbert Lom). Lang has a knack for tying up loose ends -- including Loman -- and thinks he can handle a low-level spiv like Martin, but he doesn't reckon with the latter's rage, deviousness, or resourcefulness. Martin's planning gets him past all of the obstacles in his way, even -- so it seems -- the plodding efforts of Inspector Rogers (Robert Beatty), still investigating the killing that put Martin's plan into operation.
- Detective Inspector Rogers with Scotland Yard is assigned the lead in a murder investigation, the victim shot, his body discovered in a shelter. If Rogers discovers the truth, he will find that the murderer is ex-con Leo Martin, the act only part of what he considers payment for his time served and retribution for his associates who left him to take the rap and fall alone for a failed smash and grab jewelry store heist on Bond Street. In the process of that robbery, Leo not only almost lost the use of both his hands but almost lost his hands in their entirety, he lucky to have made a recovery of any sort, although the memory of the wrist injuries still haunts him. Leo is blackmailing Gus Loman, a dance hall proprietor, for the murder in that repayment, Loman under who he worked in those smash and grabs. Part of that blackmail includes Leo having a built-in alibi for the time of the murder in the form of one of Loman's taxi dancers, Carol Dane. What Leo is unaware of is that Loman is not the big boss of the operation, and that Leo further has in his possession something that could implicate the real big boss in the murder. As such, Leo has to watch his back on multiple sides, with Loman and his boss, with innocent Carol who is falling for him, and with Rogers and his team at Scotland Yard.—Huggo
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By what name was Appointment with Crime (1946) officially released in India in English?
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