A Killer Walks

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
StarringLaurence Harvey
Trader Faulkner
Susan Shaw
Laurence Naismith
CinematographyJack Asher
Phil Grindrod
Edited byJohn Dunsford
Music byEric 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]

Plot

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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.

Cast

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References

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  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
  3. ^ "A Killer Walks (1952)". Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
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