Kill Her Gently Explained

Kill Her Gently
Director:Charles Saunders
Producer:Guido Coen
Starring:Griffith Jones
Maureen Connell
Marc Lawrence
George Mikell
Music:Edwin Astley
Editing:Marjorie Saunders
Studio:Fortress Film Productions
Distributor:Columbia Pictures UK
Runtime:75 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

Kill Her Gently is a 1957 British second feature[1] thriller film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Griffith Jones, Maureen Connell and Marc Lawrence.[2]

Plot

A motorist picks up two convicts who have just escaped from prison. He recognises the men from descriptions given of them on the radio. He hires them to murder his wife. The plan goes wrong, and he and the convicts meet their doom.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The emphatic style needed to sustain this implausible thriller (made some time ago and now severely cut) is not forthcoming in the anaemic performances of the cast, so that interest rests with the five deaths scattered liberally throughout the story."[3]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Dreary thriller, severely cut before its release in 1960."[4]

British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "Very mild and unmemorable thriller."[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Chibnall, Steve . The British 'B' Film . McFarlane . Brian . . 2009 . 978-1-8445-7319-6 . London . 128.
  2. Web site: Kill Her Gently . 23 January 2024 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  3. 1 January 1960 . Kill Her Gently . . 27 . 312 . 9 . ProQuest.
  4. Book: Quinlan, David . British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 . . 1984 . 0-7134-1874-5 . London . 333.
  5. Book: Halliwell, Leslie . Halliwell's Film Guide . Paladin . 1989 . 0586088946 . 7th . London . 556.