The Surgeon's Knife
1957 British film by Gordon Parry
- Robert Westerby
Adrienne Corri
Lyndon Brook
Production
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Gibraltar Films
Distributors Corporation of America (US)
Release date
- October 1957 (1957-10)
Running time
The Surgeon's Knife is a 1957 British crime film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri and Lyndon Brook.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel The Wicked Flee by Anne Hocking.
Synopsis
When his patient dies during an operation, a surgeon resorts to murder to cover up his negligence.[2]
Cast
- Donald Houston as Doctor Alex Waring
- Adrienne Corri as Laura Shelton
- Lyndon Brook as Doctor Ian Breck
- Jean Cadell as Henrietta Stevens
- Sydney Tafler as Doctor Hearne
- Mervyn Johns as Mr. Waring
- Marie Ney as Matron Fiske
- Ronald Adam as Major Tilling
- John Welsh as Inspector Austen
- Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Waring
- Noel Hood as Sister Slater
- André van Gyseghem as Mr. Dodds
- Frank Forsyth as Anaesthetist
- Tom Bowman as Surgeon
- Susan Westerby as Miss Jenner
- Betty Shale as Garsten
Critical reception
TV Guide rated the film 2/5 stars, noting a "Standard melodrama without enough suspense to be terrifying."[3]
References
External links
- The Surgeon's Knife at IMDb
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Films directed by Gordon Parry
- Bond Street (1948)
- Third Time Lucky (1949)
- Now Barabbas (1949)
- Golden Arrow (1949)
- Midnight Episode (1950)
- Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)
- Women of Twilight (1952)
- Innocents in Paris (1953)
- Front Page Story (1954)
- Fast and Loose (1954)
- A Yank in Ermine (1955)
- Sailor Beware! (1956)
- A Touch of the Sun (1956)
- The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
- Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
- The Navy Lark (1959)
- Friends and Neighbours (1959)
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