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The Long Knife (1958)

The Long Knife poster
Directed by
Montgomery Tully
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
57 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime story based on a novel. It follows characters involved in a criminal case.

low-budgetbritishmoderate-pacedsuspensefulgrittystraightforward

What happens

The Long Knife is a 1958 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Joan Rice, Sheldon Lawrence and Victor Brooks. It was written by Ian Stuart Black based on the 1956 novel of the same title by Leslie Truss. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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