Man Who Couldn't Walk

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Man Who Couldn't Walk
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Directed by Henry Cass
Screenplay byUmesh Malik
Produced byJock Macgregor
Umesh Malik
StarringEric Pohlmann
Peter Reynolds
Distributed byButcher Film Distributors
Release date
  • 17 October 1960 (1960-10-17)
Running time
65 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Man Who Couldn't Walk is a 1960 British film directed by Henry Cass and starring Eric Pohlmann and Peter Reynolds. [1] The screenplay was by Umesh Malik.

Contents

Premise

A gang of jewel thieves led by a man in a wheelchair hire a top safecracker.

Cast

Production

Filming started on 11 January 1960 at Walton Studios. [2]

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This unexceptional thriller has a tortuous and unlikely plot, ... a slick American idiom at variance with the London setting ... and a tendency to romanticise its unpleasant characters. It creates the general impression of being a rehash of incidents from the innumerable safe-breaking, bank or jewel robbery films of the last year or so." [3]

Kine Weekly wrote the film "packs quite a punch for its size... a reliable quota second." [4]

Variety said the film "comptently fulfils its mission." [5] When film was released in the US in 1964 Variety reviewed the movie again, calling it "routine but adequate". [6]

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References

  1. "Man Who Couldn't Walk". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  2. "Independent Plans". Kine Weekly. 17 December 1959. p. 100. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  3. "Man Who Couldn't Walk" . The Monthly Film Bulletin . 27 (312): 129. 1 January 1960 via ProQuest.
  4. "Man Who Couldn't Walk". Kine Weekly. 11 August 1960. p. 26. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  5. "Man Who Couldn't Walk". Variety. 24 August 1960. p. 6. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  6. "The Man Who Couldn't Walk". Variety. 15 January 1964. Retrieved 4 November 2024.