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Man Who Couldn't Walk

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Man Who Couldn't Walk
Directed byHenry Cass
Screenplay byUmesh Malik
Produced byJock Macgregor
Umesh Malik
StarringEric Pohlmann
Peter Reynolds
Distributed byButcher Film Distributors
Release date
  • 17 October 1960 (1960-10-17)
Running time
65 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Man Who Couldn't Walk is a 1960 British film directed by Henry Cass and starring Eric Pohlmann and Peter Reynolds.[1] The screenplay was by Umesh Malik.

It was one of several British crime films starring Reynolds.[2]

Premise

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A gang of jewel thieves led by a man in a wheelchair hire a top safecracker.

Cast

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  • Eric Pohlmann as The Consul General
  • Peter Reynolds as Keefe Brand
  • Pat Clavin as Carol
  • Reed De Rouen as Luigi
  • Bernadette Milnes as Cora
  • Richard Shaw as Enrico
  • Martin Cass as Beppo
  • Margot Van der Burgh as Maria
  • Maurice Bannister as Joey
  • Martin Gordon as Lou
  • Endre Muller as Johnny
  • Owen Berry as 1st watchman
  • John Baker as 2nd watchman

Production

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Filming started on 11 January 1960 at Walton Studios.[3]

Reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This unexceptional thriller has a tortuous and unlikely plot, ... a slick American idiom at variance with the London setting ... and a tendency to romanticise its unpleasant characters. It creates the general impression of being a rehash of incidents from the innumerable safe-breaking, bank or jewel robbery films of the last year or so."[4]

Kine Weekly wrote the film "packs quite a punch for its size... a reliable quota second."[5]

Variety said the film "comptently fulfils its mission."[6] When film was released in the US in 1964 Variety reviewed the movie again, calling it "routine but adequate".[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Man Who Couldn't Walk". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  2. ^ Vagg, Stephen (11 November 2024). "Peter Reynolds: Forgotten Cad". Filmink. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Independent Plans". Kine Weekly. 17 December 1959. p. 100. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Man Who Couldn't Walk". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 129. 1 January 1960 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "Man Who Couldn't Walk". Kine Weekly. 11 August 1960. p. 26. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Man Who Couldn't Walk". Variety. 24 August 1960. p. 6. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  7. ^ "The Man Who Couldn't Walk". Variety. 15 January 1964. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
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