Time Lock Movie Review

It probably happens all the time: A little boy traps himself in a Canadian Bank vault with a 63-hour time-lock and everyone spends the better part of 73 minutes trying to get him out before he suffocates to death. When Robert Beatty as Vault Expert Dawson is on the case, you know you've got a rollicking chance for a happy ending. And who IS that actor, 13th on the cast list? Why, it's Sean Connery as a powerfully built acetylene welder, a full five years before he was “Bond, James Bond.” This tightly scripted, tensely directed, unpretentious suspense yarn is everything it should be. You care about the unfortunate lad played by Vincent Winter (four years after his Oscar-winning performance in The Little Kidnappers) and hope he will be safely returned to his folks. You might wish his folks (Betty McDowall and Lee Patterson) had kept a closer watch on their kid, but you can't help sympathizing with their plight. After all, kids WILL get trapped in bank vaults, especially in the movies. Over 40 years after Time Lock’s release, Connery and Winter (1947–98) were among the prestigious assembly of Academy Award winners on Oscar night, 1998.

1957 73m/B GB Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Vincent Winter, Lee Patterson, Sandra Francis, Alan Gifford, Robert Ayres, Victor Wood, Jack Cunningham, Peter Mannering, Gordon Tanner, Larry Cross, Sean Connery; D: Gerald Thomas; W: Peter Rogers; C: Peter Hennessy; M: Stanley Black. VHS