The Long Arm

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The Long Arm (1956)

NR 06/02/1957 (US) Mystery, Crime, Thriller 1h 36m

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Overview

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.

Charles Frend

Director
Robert Barr

Screenplay
Janet Green

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Top Billed Cast

Jack Hawkins

Supt Tom Halliday
John Stratton

Sergeant Ward
Dorothy Alison

Mary Halliday
Michael Brooke

Tony Halliday
Sam Kydd

Police Constable in Information Room
Glyn Houston

Detective Sergeant in 'Q' car
Richard Leech

Nightwatchman / Gilson
Newton Blick

Deputy Commander
Geoffrey Keen

Chief Superintendent Jim Malcolm
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Featured Review

A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on August 7, 2016

The key is to follow the key!

The Long Arm is directed by Charles Frend and written by Janet Green and Robert Barr. It stars Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison and Michael Brooke. Music is by Gerard Schurmann and cinematography by Gordon Dines.

Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday (Hawkins) heads up an investigation into a number of safe cracking robberies. Which in turn turns into a murder investigation.

Out of Ealing Studios, this is a little cracker of a police procedural detective mystery. The flow of the investigation is natural, not given over to wild implausibilities,... read the rest.

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