Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Directed by Charles Frend
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Cast
Jack Hawkins
Supt Tom Halliday
John Stratton
Sergeant Ward
Dorothy Alison
Mary Halliday
Michael Brooke
Tony Halliday
Sam Kydd
Police Constable in Information Room
Glyn Houston
Detective Sergeant in 'Q' car
Richard Leech
Nightwatchman / Gilson
Newton Blick
Deputy Commander
Geoffrey Keen
Chief Superintendent Jim Malcolm
Sydney Tafler
Stone
Peter Burton
Creasey
George Rose
Slob
Arthur Rigby
Detective Inspector at Chester
Ralph Truman
Colonel Blenkinsop
Related
The Glass Key
Black Angel
Lady in the Lake
The Blue Lamp
The Mirror Crack'd
The Man Who Cheated Himself
The Blue Gardenia
Nightfall
Sapphire
Blackmail
Murder!
A Blueprint for Murder
They Made Me a Fugitive
Footsteps in the Fog
Shadow of a Doubt
Born to Kill