The Long Arm (Original title)The Third Key (Alternative title)
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 10 September 1956 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Charles Frend
Synopsis: Two detectives doggedly search out a master safe-breaker who was formerly employed by a safe manufacturer, after a series of crimes in the past is linked to a new case.
Genre: Police drama
Subject: Police
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8501 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 10 September 1956 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Charles Frend
Synopsis: Two detectives doggedly search out a master safe-breaker who was formerly employed by a safe manufacturer, after a series of crimes in the past is linked to a new case.
Genre: Police drama
Subject: Police
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8501 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(47)
©/Production Company: Ealing Studios, Presents: The Rank Organisation, A Michael Balcon Production: Michael Balcon, Associate Producer: Tom Morahan, Unit Production Manager: Norman Priggen, Production Supervisor: Hal Mason, [Production Secretary]: Lee Turner, Assistant Director: David Middlemas, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Michael Birkett, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Otto Plaschkes, 3rd Assistant Director: David Tringham, Continuity: Pamela Gayler, Screenplay by: Janet Green, Robert Barr, Additional Dialogue by: Dorothy Christie, Campbell Christie, Story by: Robert Barr, Director of Photography: Gordon Dines, Camera Operator: Jeff Seaholme, [Focus Puller]: Ken Westbury, [Clapper Loader]: Michael Sarafian, Ted Lockhart, [Stills]: Roy Gough, Special Effects: E.R. Taylor, [Supervising Editor]: Jack Harris, Editor: Gordon Stone, [Assistant Editor]: Barbara Bennett, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Robin Clarke, Art Director: Edward Carrick, [Assistant Art Director]: Len Wills, Scenic Artist: W. Simpson Robinson, Costume Designer: Anthony Mendleson, Make-up: Harry Frampton, Hair Styles: Daphne Martin, Music Composed by: Gerbrand Schurmann, [Music] Played by: Sinfonia of London, [Music] Conducted by: Dock Mathieson, Sound Supervisor: Stephen Dalby, [Sound] Recordist: Cyril Swern, [Sound Camera Operator]: Peter Lacey, [Boom Operator]: Don Wortham, [Boom Assistant]: Harry Fairbairn, [Dubbing Crew]: Ray Palmer, Eric Stockl, Sound Editor: Alastair McIntyre, [Publicity]: Jack Worrow
Cast
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Jack Hawkins (Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday), John Stratton (Detective-Sergeant Ward), Dorothy Alison (Mary Halliday), Geoffrey Keen (Chief-Superintendent Jim Malcolm), Ursula Howells (Mrs Elliot), Newton Blick (Deputy Commander Harris), Sydney Tafler (Stone), Ralph Truman (Colonel Blenkinsop), Maureen Delany (Mrs Stevens, the daily help), Richard Leech ("Nightwatchman"), Meredith Edwards (Mr Thomas), George Rose (Slob, informer), Jameson Clark (Detective Superintendent Ogilvie), Ian Bannen (the young workman), Maureen Davis (the young workman's wife), Peter Burton (Creasey), Michael Brooke (Tony Halliday), Sam Kydd (police constable in information room), Glyn Houston (detective-sergeant in 'Q' car), Arthur Rigby (detective inspector at Chester), John Warwick (detective-inspector at shipping office), Joss Ambler (cashier at shipping office), Barry Keagan (detective-constable in hospital ward), Alec McCowen (house surgeon), Harry Locke (secondhand dealer), Nicholas Parsons (Police Constable Bates), Warwick Ashton (newspaper circulation manager), David Davies (Welsh police constable), Julie Milton (Welsh newsagent's daughter), Harold Goodwin (official at Somerset House), John Welsh (house agent at Shepperton), Gillian Webb (housewife at Shepperton), William Mervyn (manager of Festival Hall), Ursula Howells (Mrs Gilson), Richard Leech (Mr Gilson), Peter Welch ([CID man]), Roy Purcell ([fingerprint man]), Frazer Hines, Anthony Richmond ([urchin]), Stratford Johns ([constable])