Kill Her Gently

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Kill Her Gently
Theatrical release poster
Directed bydirector
Written bywriter
Produced byproducer
StarringGriffith Jones
Maureen Connell
Marc Lawrence
George Mikell
Narrated bynarrator
CinematographyWalter J. Harvey
Edited byMarjorie Saunders
Music byEdwin Astley
Production
company
Fortress Film Productions
Distributed bydistributor
Release dates
December 1957 (UK)
October 1958 (USA)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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]

Plot

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.

Cast

Critical reception

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 1928โ€“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]

References

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  2. ^ "Kill Her Gently". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Kill Her Gently". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 9. 1 January 1960 – via ProQuest.
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