Kill Her Gently

Dec 1, 1957

1h 15m

★ 5.6

"She's the only wife I have, so...KILL HER Gently!"

Overview

A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Fortress Film Productions Ltd.

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Cast

Jeff Martin

Griffith Jones

Kay Martin

Maureen Connell

William Connors

Marc Lawrence

Lars Svenson

George Mikell

Dr. Jimmy Landers

Shay Gorman

Raina

Marianne Brauns

Insp. Raglan

Frank Hawkins

Truck Driver

John Gayford

Const. Brown

Roger Avon

Det. Sgt. Thompson

Patrick Connor

Bank clerk

Jonathan Meddings

Bank manager

Peter Stephens

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.

5.0

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Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.

5.7

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6.3

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6.6

Never Let Go

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John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.

6.0

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Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.

6.1

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4.6

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6.8

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7.1

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5.4

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7.0

Yield to the Night

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6.5

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7.0

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8.6

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5.8

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6.3

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6.8

Obsession

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6.2

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