As an unabashed potboiler it's suitably lurid and preposterous, but unfortunately it merely simmers. Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. His first efforts, published under a variety of pseudonyms, were cheaply printed potboiler novels. "Potboiler" was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Matt Roush of "TV Guide" wrote "Nurses deserve better than this ludicrous potboiler". The result was "Tokyo Drifter", an "ostensibly routine potboiler" made into a "jaw-dropping, eye-popping fantasia". He also acted in stage, notably at the Potboiler Act Theatre. Watch it for its robust potboiler personality. Doesn't this sound like a standard scheme of an 80s potboiler? Siddons would produce along with Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood through Potboiler Productions.