The Long Arm

Year: 1956

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: English

Director: Charles Frend

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Scotland Yard detectives race to halt a wave of safe‑cracking burglaries sweeping England, starting with evidence uncovered at a recent London break‑in. The film adopts the gritty police‑procedural style popularized by Ealing’s 1950 classic The Blue Lamp, and was released in the United States under the title The Third Key.

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