Dublin Nightmare – 1958 | 62 mins | Crime | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Compact b-movie based on the novel by Robin Estridge and effectively directed by John Pomeroy that transposes a Third Man style plot to 1950s Ireland.

Set in Dublin, Steve Lawlor returns to Ireland to aid the Republican cause by taking part in the armed robbery of a security van in the North. The gang successfully pull off the heist and split-up before crossing the border and meeting up at the hotel of Republican sympathiser Edward Dillon, but Lawlor, who held the loot, fails to return. Canadian photographer John Kevin (William Sylvester) arrives in Dublin expecting to meet Lawlor, but is informed by police that his friend died in a blazing car crash. The Republican gang believe Lawlor’s absent passenger in the car, bookseller Danny O’Callaghan, is the traitor and has made off with the stolen money.

Lawlor’s Italian girlfriend, Anna Monti, doesn’t believe he died in the crash and when Kevin is attacked by a mysterious assailant in a white trenchcoat, he becomes suspicious and begins investigating the circumstances of his friend’s death. When Anna announces she is returning to Paris, Kevin returns to a Dublin pub he visited the night after Lawlor’s death and unwittingly photographed a man in a white trenchcoat. There he finds the decadent Lawlor alive and well, and his friends admits its money and a lavish lifestyle he strives for – not the cause.