British Film Noir Directors: Montgomery Tully

Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.

A slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals.

An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.

An American Treasury agent teams up with a Scotland Yard inspector to track down a group of thieves that are creating artificial diamonds out of sugar.

A failed business deal forces James Nevill to blackmail his weak-willed friend into murdering him so that his wife can collect his insurance, but circumstances suddenly change.

Based on how far out of the socket the long arm of coincidence is stretched in this film, it is a lot closer to a Tex Avery cartoon than to any kind of film-noir genre. American Richard Arlen, long past his prime and cast to have an American actor heading the cast so the film might actually induce an American booking (an observation based on the reality of selling tickets and with no intentions of knocking the otherwise good all-British cast), gets innocently involved with a drug ring when he is left a package containing their stolen goods. Some stuff happens but he and a detective meet and eventually round up the crooks. The other primary reason for an independent B-film of this quality ending up with 20th Century-Fox as the distributor is that TC-F was up to their ears in slow-in-production CinemaScope films and couldn't make enough films fast enough to meet the demands of their exchanges and exhibitors and had to turn to the indies to provide more product. Actually that is the first reason and the Arlen casting was second.

Crowds flock to a carnival sideshow to see "The Starving Man", a heavyset man who claims he can go 70 days without eating. However, a couple of murders occur at the carnival, resulting in the police becoming involved.

A man claims innocence after being accused of murdering a bookie. His wife and brother-in-law investigate, uncovering inconsistencies as they search for the real culprit.

A reformed forger runs into an acquaintance from his past, now an escaped murderer, who blackmails him into resuming his criminal career.

A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.

Attempting to reconstruct a criminal case, a radio presenter seeks the whereabouts of a robber who has recently finished a prison sentence, leading him into danger.

After a test pilot is injured in a plane crash, his fiancée takes him to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist is unhappily married and has a crush on the fiancée, and attempts to hypnotize the pilot into murdering his wife.

A woman's husband has been convicted of murder. Knowing he is innocent, she sets out to find the real killer.

London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.

An insurance investigator finds there's more to electronic dream therapy than meets the eye.

The Long Knife is a 1958 British crime film concerning a young nurse who becomes drawn into criminal activities. Directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Joan Rice, Sheldon Lawrence and Victor Brooks.

When a nightclub is burned to the ground, a detective is assigned by an insurance company to find the cause. The detective suspects the club owner of torching the place, but meets the club owner's niece, who helps the detective uncover a mob protection scheme that's responsible.

Just after he has become engaged to a baronet's daughter, Bob Jenson is arrested for robbery and murder. He breaks jail, tracks down the real criminals and hands them over to the authorities.

Roger Fenton has been released from prison and started to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.

A safe in 'The Jackpot Club' is robbed of £6,000. The police and the owner of the club want to track down the safecracker, but for very different reasons.

Mike Billings decides to give gambling a go and it happens he's good at it. His instant fortune attracts quite a number of characters including a con artist, a hired killer, and the requisite attractive woman.

A novelist and his sexy lover plot to kill the novelist's wife so he can inherit her fortune including her house that happens to be haunted.

Tom and his new bride's big day takes a turn for the worse when a Frenchwoman arrives uninvited, claiming to be Tom's wife Annette, with whom Tom had a romance at the end of the war when he was injured near Normandy and she nursed him back to health. It is then that Annette claims the marriage took place, something Tom doesn't remember, She is willing to divorce Tom, but only with a £10,000 settlement. With a promising career in the balance, he must find out if Annette is really telling the truth.

Marjorie Stedman (Hazel Court) investigates the disappearance of a man whom had fraudulently obtained a high-price diamond.

A married composer finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her death.