Montgomery Tully

Montgomery Tully (1904 – 1988) was an Irish film director and writer. Born in Dublin, Tully worked on low-budget British films, mostly crime dramas. One of his efforts, No Road Back, featured a young Sean Connery in a very early role. His last film The Terrornauts was made in 1967; he also worked in television directing episodes of shows like Edgar Wallace Mysteries, Kraft Mystery Theatre, Man from Interpol and Fabian of the Yard.

Partial filmography

• Murder in Reverse (1945)
• Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
• Small Town Story (1953)
• 36 Hours (aka Terror Street) (1953)
• Five Days (aka Paid to Kill) (1954)
• The Glass Cage (aka The Glass Tomb) (1955)
• No Road Back (1957)
• The Price of Silence (1959)
• Dead Lucky (1960)
• The House in Marsh Road (1960)
• The Third Alibi (1961)
• Master Spy (1964)
• Who Killed the Cat? (1966)
• The Terrornauts (1967)
• Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)
• The Electronic Monster (aka "Escapement" - original British title)
• The Diplomatic Corpse
• Man in the Shadow
• The Key Man
• The Diamond Wizard

Two of his movies have been released on DVD as part of Hammer Film Noir Double Feature while many others have been released on VHS in the 1980s. Some of his commercial movies made during the 1960s such as Battle Beneath the Earth often air on TCM.

External links

• Montgomery Tully at the Internet Movie Database