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The Long Arm (1956)
Directed by Charles Frend
“The True Inside Story of Scotland Yard's Crime Busters!”
Mystery, Crime, Thriller · 1h 36m
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Cast
Jack Hawkins
Supt Tom Halliday
John Stratton
Sergeant Ward
Dorothy Alison
Mary Halliday
M
Michael Brooke
Tony Halliday
Sam Kydd
Police Constable in Information Room
Glyn Houston
Detective Sergeant in 'Q' car
Richard Leech
Nightwatchman / Gilson
N
Newton Blick
Deputy Commander
Geoffrey Keen
Chief Superintendent Jim Malcolm
Sydney Tafler
Stone
Peter Burton
Creasey
George Rose
Slob
Crew
- Director
- Charles Frend
- Screenplay
- Janet Green, Robert Barr
- Director of Photography
- Gordon Dines
- Original Music Composer
- Gerard Schurmann
- Editor
- Gordon Stone
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
Details
- Release date
- 1956-06-01
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Mystery, Crime, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Ealing Studios