Walk a Tightrope

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In England, an American expat is hired by a woman to kill her ex-husband but things are not what they seem to be at first glance.In England, an American expat is hired by a woman to kill her ex-husband but things are not what they seem to be at first glance.In England, an American expat is hired by a woman to kill her ex-husband but things are not what they seem to be at first glance.

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6.2/10

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Trivia
Strand On the Green, the Sheppard's address in the film is the name of an actual street in London W4. It is located immediately to the east of Kew Bridge, along the north bank of the river Thames.

Goofs
The woman Dan Duryea has been following goes into a bar. He's seen from the inside spreading the horizontal bands of a venetian blind to see what's gong on but the blind would be on the inside of the window and he's supposed to be on the outside.

Quotes
Carl Lutcher: You know something? I hate people. They're the worst thing that ever happened to this world. They're liars and cheats. You can't trust any of them.
Maisie: Some of my best friends are people!
Carl Lutcher: Well, you'll learn, That's all I got to say.
Maisie: Oh, Lutch, don't be mad. You'll get another job. Things always turn out for the best.
Carl Lutcher: You know, when I was a kid, I caught a lot of birds one day. I laid a branch of a tree on the ground and covered it in that sticky stuff, that bird lime, you know? And all these birds got stuck on it. There must have been about a dozen of them. I wished I could get them off but I didn't know how. I couldn't get rid of them. So I ran around, waving the branch and shaking it and banging it against a wall. But I still couldn't get them off. I busted their legs and everything. I nearly went crazy. I couldn't just throw it away and leave them there. So you know what I did? I stuck them all in a big tank of water and drowned them.

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References The War Lover (1962)

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8/10

Dan Duryea on top form in taut thriller

Dan Duryea is Lutcher, an unstable and violent drifter. The good news, which he tells his girlfriend, is that he has a job. The bad news, which he doesn't, is that it is to kill someone. Patricia Owens plays Ellen, the devoted wife of Jason, who is traumatised when Lutcher bursts in and shoots him, and even worse, insistently accuses her of paying him to do it.

This is a gripping and suspenseful thriller that keeps you guessing right to the end. Dan Duryea is at his best, particularly in the scene in the magistrates' court; no matter how unsympathetic his character may be, he can't help but make you smile. Owens is convincing in the difficult role of Ellen, while the unfortunate Jason is Terence Cooper, one of the least known Bonds, in the Sixties' CASINO ROYALE. Canadian born actor Neil McCallum, responsible for the script from a story by New York writer Mann Rubin, as well as playing prosecuting counsel, was shortly to become a household name as one of the stars of the BBC Mafia series, VENDETTA. There's also the perennial plain-clothes officer of British B movies, Trevor Reid, a role he tended to share with the not dissimilar Ballard Berkeley. A poverty row production, maybe, but a compelling and entertaining little film as well.