A Killer Walks

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A Killer Walks
Directed byRonald Drake
Written byRonald Drake
Based onnovel Envy My Simplicity by Rayner Barton
play Gathering Storm by Gordon Glennon [1]
Produced byJohn Ainsworth
Ronald Drake
Starring Laurence Harvey
Trader Faulkner
Susan Shaw
Laurence Naismith
Cinematography Jack Asher
Phil Grindrod
Edited byJohn Dunsford
Music by Eric Spear
Release date
  • October 1952 (1952-10)(UK)
Running time
57 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Killer Walks is a 1952 British film noir directed by Ronald Drake and starring Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner and Susan Shaw. [2] [3]

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Plot

This is a story about two brothers, Ned and Frankie, living on a farm with their old grandmother. Ned despises being a farm labourer and befriends a girl from the city. She does not like a farm life either and dreams of having her own hair saloon.

Frankie is a somnambulist and one night, he kills a bull with his gun. He also has many knives. This gives Ned a frightening idea: What if he stabs his grandmother with a knife and blame Frankie for the murder? Then he will be the owner of the farm and buy a hair saloon to his beloved one.

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References

  1. Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN   9781317740636 via Google Books.
  2. A Killer Walks at IMDb OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. "A Killer Walks (1952)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.