Adam Faith

Sellers plays car salesman Lionel Meadows, whose activities are just a front for a major car-theft operation. However, when cosmetics salesman John Cummings (Richard Todd) has his car stolen by one of Meadows' gang of car thieves, he initiates a one-man vendetta against a ruthless and brutal criminal who will go to extreme lengths to keep his criminal activities hidden from the eyes of the police and the public. When his brand new 1959 Ford Anglia is stolen right outside the door of his workplace at Berger's cosmetics, Cummings -- already under pressure from his boss to keep up with modern sales techniques and a younger, hungrier workforce -- finds the loss of the most important tool hard to bear. With the tenacity of a true salesman he tries both hard and soft sell techniques to uncover the operation that is removing cars from the street, giving them new plates and a paint job and ensuring that their whereabouts is never traced. But his interference has consequences, not just for the criminals involved -- for Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) and the gang of youths who hang out at the corner café, ready to steal cars to demand.