THE LONG ARM
(Rank-Ealing) G Cert. ESIDE the raw excitement, the ruthless villains (and the somewhat ruthless cops) of The Desperate Hours, The Long Arm is almost prim-indeed, rather like a BBC documentary on the C.I.D. But there’s good solid Ealing ground work, and Jack Hawkins is the very model of a modern DetectiveSuperintendent. He really carries the film. There are one or two slight twists to the story, and Charles Frend is here a competent, not an inspired, director; but the star (and the smooth documentary style that Balcon has encouraged) make The Long Arm seem better than it really is.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 18
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102THE LONG ARM New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 18
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