The Limping Man 1953 Based on the novel Death On The Tideway by Anthony Verney, screenplay by Ian Stuart Black and Reginald Long, directed by Cy Enfield. Ian wrote for British TV shows The Invisible Man, Sir Francis Drake, Danger Man, Star Maidens and Doctor Who. Cy was named a communist and blacklisted in Hollywood in 1953, he moved to the UK and directed a whole pile of films there. The 1961 Mysterious Island and the 1964 Zulu might be his best known films. His 1957 movie Hell Drivers is quite good. It has a way better cast too, Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Sid James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum, Sean Connery and a whole pile more I didn't know.
The Limping Man has Lloyd Bridges returning to the UK to see an old girlfriend, he'd been there during the war, at the airport a man is gunned down and that puts Lloyd in the middle of a murder investigation. The murdered man has some connection to the woman that Lloyd has gone to see. Things get more and more complicated until the ending twist made it all moot. Certainly no where near the film that Hell Drivers is, go watch that instead.
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