Man Who Couldn't Walk | |
Director: | Henry Cass |
Screenplay: | Umesh Malik |
Producer: | Jock Macgregor Umesh Malik |
Starring: | Eric Pohlmann Peter Reynolds |
Distributor: | Butcher Film Distributors |
Runtime: | 65 mins |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
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]
A gang of jewel thieves led by a man in a wheelchair hire a top safecracker.
Filming started on 11 January 1960 at Walton Studios.[3]
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]