A Killer Walks
A Killer Walks is a 1952 British film noir directed and written by Ronald Drake and starring Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner and Susan Shaw.
Plot
Two brothers, Ned and Frankie, live on a farm with their elderly grandmother. Ned despises being a farm labourer and falls in love with a girl from the city. She does not like farm life either and dreams of having her own hair salon.Frankie is a somnambulist and one night he kills a bull with his gun. He also has many knives. This gives Ned an idea: what if he stabs his grandmother and blames Frankie for the murder? Then he will inherit the farm and buy a hair salon for his beloved.
Cast
- Susan Shaw as Joan Gray
- Laurence Harvey as Ned Harsten
- Trader Faulkner as Frankie Harsten
- Laurence Naismith as Doctor James
- Sheila Shand Gibbs as Brenda
- Ethel Edwards as Gran Elizabeth
- Valentine Dunn as Brenda's mother
- Madge Brindley as Mrs. Ramble
- John Ainsworth as Tony
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An ineptly made, strenuously over-acted, melodrama of violent goings-on in the Cold Comfort Farm territory."Kine Weekly wrote: "Turgid tabloid crime melodrama, with drab farm background. ...The picture, cut-price Grand Guignol, is incredibly unsubtle, and the longer it goes on the more miserable and apparent it becomes."
Picture Show wrote: "Murder drama which at times becomes somewhat luridly melodramatic."