This story of a middle-aged author in love with a nubile nymphet was titled 'Lola', presumably to cash in on the Lolita image. The combination of rugged Charles Bronson and prettily pouting Susan George would, I suspect, be irresistible in an action film, but seems faintly bizarre in this early offering from director Richard Donner, who, not long after, hit the big time with such hits as 'The Omen', 'Superman' and 'The Goonies'. Here Donner resorts to a full bag of cinematic tricks - freeze frames, a clangorous pop score, slow- motion action and speeded-up bicycle ride - to pep up his picture of London at the end of the allegedly swinging 60s. Honor Blackman raises a smile as the absent-minded mum who drops the breakfast kippers on the dining-room carpet and Trevor Howard plays all stops out as the grandpa with a roving eye and a penchant for potting foreigners with a shotgun. Television comedy hosts Jimmy Tarbuck and Norman Vaughan appear as themselves.

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