Kill Her Gently | |
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Directed by | Charles Saunders |
Written by | Paul Erickson |
Produced by | Guido Coen |
Starring |
Griffith Jones Maureen Connell Marc Lawrence George Mikell |
Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
Edited by | Marjorie Saunders |
Music by | Edwin Astley |
Production company | Fortress Film Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures UK |
Release dates | December 1957 (UK) October 1958 (USA) |
Running time | 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]
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.
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]