Seven Keys (film)

Seven Keys
UK quad poster
Directed by	Pat Jackson
Produced by	Leslie Parkyn Julian Wintle
Written by	Henry Blyth Jack Davies
Starring	Alan Dobie Jeannie Carson
Music by	Alan Clare
Cinematography	Ernest Steward
Edited by	Lionel Selwyn
Production company	Independent Artists
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	February 1961 (UK)
Running time	57 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Seven Keys is a 1961 British crime thriller directed by Pat Jackson and starring Alan Dobie.^[1][2]

Plot

Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.^[3]

Cast

• Alan Dobie as Russell
• Jeannie Carson as Shirley Steele
• Delphi Lawrence as Natalie Worth
• John Carson as Norman
• John Lee as Jefferson
• Anthony Nicholls as Prison Governor
• Robertson Hare as Mr. Piggott
• Fabia Drake as Mrs. Piggott
• Alan White as Prison Warder
• Colin Gordon as Mr. Barber
• Peter Barkworth as Estate Agent
• Barbara Evans as Freddy's Wife
• John Horsley as Police Sergeant
• Jeremy Lloyd as Freddy
• Timothy Bateson as Bank Teller (uncredited)
• Victor Brooks as Discharging Officer (uncredited)
• Philip Locke as Norman's Thug (uncredited)

Critical reception

TV Guide described it as a "well-worn crime picture...A tame entry directed by former World War II documentarian Jackson, whose later works failed to make any impact on audiences".^[4] Britmovie wrote, "Pat Jackson, who made his name with such wartime documentaries as Western Approaches, intelligently directed this ingenious low-budget crime drama."^[5]

References

External links

• Seven Keys on IMDb
• Seven Keys at BritMovie