Seven Keys (film)

Seven Keys
Seven Keys
	UK quad poster
Directed by	Pat Jackson
Written by	Henry Blyth; Jack Davies
Produced by	Leslie Parkyn; Julian Wintle
Starring	Alan Dobie; Jeannie Carson
Cinematography	Ernest Steward
Edited by	Lionel Selwyn
Music by	Alan Clare
Production; company	Independent Artists
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	February 1962 (UK)
Running time	57 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Seven Keys is a 1962 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]