They Can't Hang Me

“A thrill-a-minute story behind today's atomic headlines!”

6.8(5)19551h 15m

CrimeDrama

A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

Director

Val Guest

Cast

Terence Morgan

Inspector Ralph Brown

Yolande Donlan

Jill Wilson

Anthony Oliver

Inspector Newcombe

André Morell

Robert Isaac Pitt

Reginald Beckwith

Harold

Ursula Howells

Antonia Pitt

Guido Lorraine

Pietr Revski

Basil Dignam

Wing Commander Riddle

Raymond Rollett

Sir Robert Rosper

Fred Johnson

Professor Robinson-Heston

Arnold Marlé

Karl Kopek

Mark Dignam

Prison Governor

Reviews

2 reviews

John Chard

11y ago

6.0

Soho Killing: Senior Civil Servant Is Charged. They Can’t Hang Me is directed by Val Guest and adapted to screenplay by Guest and Val Valentine from the novel written by Leonard Mosley. It stars Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan, Andre Morell, Anthony Oliver and Reginald Beckwith. When Robert Pitt (Morell) is convicted of murder and sentenced to death by execution, he offers the state a bargai...

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

André Morell is "Pitt" - in jail awaiting hanging for murdering a prostitute. At the last minute he contacts "Insp. Brown" (Terence Morgan) with information about master spy "Leonidas" who is about to take a top scientific secret behind the iron curtain - in return for his life! Together with his sidekick Anthony Oliver ("Insp. Newcombe") they set off to thwart this plan. It's a decent enough stor...