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The Long Arm

7.0 96 mins Mystery   Crime   Thriller   1956
Ealing Studios  
Director(s): Charles Frend

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

Casts of The Long Arm

Jack Hawkins

as Supt Tom Halliday

John Stratton

as Sergeant Ward

Dorothy Alison

as Mary Halliday

Michael Brooke

as Tony Halliday

Sam Kydd

as Police Constable in Information Room

Glyn Houston

as Detective Sergeant in 'Q' car

Richard Leech

as Nightwatchman / Gilson

Newton Blick

as Deputy Commander

Geoffrey Keen

as Chief Superintendent Jim Malcolm

Sydney Tafler

as Stone

Peter Burton

as Creasey

George Rose

as Slob

Arthur Rigby

as Detective Inspector at Chester

Ralph Truman

as Colonel Blenkinsop

Ian Bannen

as The Young Workman - Stanley James

Maureen Davis

as The Young Workman's Wife - Mrs. James

John Warwick

as Detective Inspector at Shipping Office

Joss Ambler

as Cashier at Shipping Office

Barry Keegan

as Detective Constable in Hospital Ward

Alec McCowen

as House Surgeon

Harry Locke

as Secondhand Dealer

Nicholas Parsons

as Police Constable Bates

Warwick Ashton

as Newspaper Circulation Manager

Ursula Howells

as Mrs. Elliot / Mrs. Gilson

David Davies

as Welsh Police Constable

Julie Milton

as Welsh Newsagent's Daughter

Meredith Edwards

as Mr. Thomas

Harold Goodwin

as Official at Somerset House

John Welsh

as House Agent at Shepperton

Gillian Webb

as Housewife at Shepperton

Maureen Delaney

as Mrs. Stevens, the daily help

Jameson Clark

as Detective Superintendent Ogilvie

William Mervyn

as Manager of Festival Hall

Vincent Ball

as P.C. at Hospital (uncredited)

Richard Davies

as Detective (uncredited)

Frazer Hines

as Urchin (uncredited)

Stratford Johns

as Constable (uncredited)

David Lodge

as Detective at Car Lot (uncredited)

Guy Standeven

as Detective (uncredited)

Frederick Treves

as Detective tailing Creasey (uncredited)

Peter Welch

as CID Man (uncredited)

Martin Wyldeck

as Officer in Criminal Records Department (uncredited)

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