The Long Knife

The Long Knife is a 1958 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Joan Rice, Sheldon Lawrence and Victor Brooks. It was written by Ian Stuart Black.

A young nurse becomes drawn into criminal activities.

Cast

 * Joan Rice as Jill Holden
 * Sheldon Lawrence as Ross Waters
 * Dorothy Brewster as Angela
 * Ellen Pollock as Mrs Cheam
 * Victor Brooks as Superintendent Leigh
 * Alan Keith as Doctor Ian Probus
 * Arthur Gomez as Sergeant Bowles

Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Well turned-out crime thriller which suffers from an unlikely nurse as a heroine and a denouement which connoisseurs of the detective story might well consider obsolete."