They Cant Hang Me
5.6 /10 1 Votes
Director Val Guest Music director Stanley Black Duration Language English | 5.4/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Story by Leonard Mosley Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 1955 (UK) Based on novel by Leonard Mosley Writer Val Guest, Leonard Mosley (novel), Val Valentine Cast Terence Morgan (Inspector Ralph Brown), Yolande Donlan (Jill Wilson), Anthony Oliver (Inspector Newcombe), André Morell (Robert Isaac Pitt), Reginald Beckwith (Harold)Similar movies The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , The Ipcress File , Mission: Impossible , Billion Dollar Brain , Funeral in Berlin , 21 Jump Street Tagline A thrill-a-minute story behind today's atomic headlines! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
They Can't Hang Me is a 1955 British drama film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan and Anthony Oliver. It was based on a novel by Leonard Mosley.
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Plot
A senior civil servant, Pitt (Morell) has been convicted of a murder and sentenced to death. Days before his execution, Pitt reveals that he has been passing on top secret information to an agent of a foreign power and offers to reveal the identity of his handler in exchange for a reprieve. With only five days before Pitt's execution, debonair Special Branch Inspector Ralph Brown (Morgan) takes on the task of identifying the spy before he flees the country.
The starring role of Brown was an unusual part for Morgan, who was better known in British film for playing villains and criminals.
Cast
Critical reception
Radio Times called the film "a minor Cold War thriller", adding, "(Val) Guest puts a neat (if downbeat) spin on events," and concluding, "the back-up cast is as solid as a rock, with Guest's wife Yolande Donlan putting in an effective appearance" ; while TV Guide described it as "slightly more interesting than the normal run of British spy films, thanks to an unusually intelligent script."
References
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