A Killer Walks is a 1952 British film noir directed and written by Ronald Drake and starring Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner and Susan Shaw.
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Plot
Two brothers, Ned and Frankie, live on a farm with their elderly grandmother. Ned despises being a farm labourer and falls in love with a girl from the city. She does not like farm life either and dreams of having her own hair salon.
Frankie is a somnambulist and one night he kills a bull with his gun. He also has many knives. This gives Ned an idea: what if he stabs his grandmother and blames Frankie for the murder? Then he will inherit the farm and buy a hair salon for his beloved.
Cast
Susan Shaw as Joan Gray
Laurence Harvey as Ned Harsten
Trader Faulkner as Frankie Harsten
Laurence Naismith as Doctor James
Sheila Shand Gibbs as Brenda
Ethel Edwards as Gran Elizabeth
Valentine Dunn as Brenda's mother
Madge Brindley as Mrs. Ramble
John Ainsworth as Tony
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An ineptly made, strenuously over-acted, melodrama of violent goings-on in the Cold Comfort Farm territory."
Kine Weekly wrote: "Turgid tabloid crime melodrama, with drab farm background. ...The picture, cut-price Grand Guignol, is incredibly unsubtle, and the longer it goes on the more miserable and apparent it becomes."
Picture Show wrote: "Murder drama which at times becomes somewhat luridly melodramatic."