The End of the Line is a 1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...

 British crime

Crime

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 film starring Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley is an English film and television actress.She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon , Dracula, Prince of Darkness , Rasputin, the Mad Monk , andQuatermass and the Pit among her...

, Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne

-Early life:He was born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel, in Mainz, Germany. His German father was the Judge of Mayence, and his half-English mother gave singing lessons. Because his family was Jewish, he was sent to England to protect him from the Nazis, and he stayed with his aunt, the photographer...

, Jennifer Jayne

Jennifer Jayne

Jennifer Jayne was an English film and television actress.Her name at birth was Jennifer Jones, which she altered in order to avoid confusion with Jennifer Jones, the Hollywood actress...

, Arthur Gomez

Arthur Gomez

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, Charles Clay

Charles Clay

Charles Clay was an English surgeon, called the "Father of Ovariotomy".He was born in Bredbury, near Stockport, Cheshire, and died in Poulton-le-Fylde, near Blackpool, Lancashire....

 and directed by Charles Saunders

Charles Saunders (director)

Charles Joel Saunders was an English film director and screenwriter who started in the industry as a film editor, and who also contributed to television...

. The film was released in the United States in 1959

1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....

. It was made at Southall Studios

Southall Studios

Southall Studios was a film studio located in Southall, Middlesex in West London which operated between 1924 and 1958.The studio was constructed on the site of a former air hanger by the silent film director and producer G.B. Samuelson. The original buildings were destroyed in a fire in 1936, but...

 in West London

West London

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.

Plot

An American author living in England (Alan Baxter) gets involved with the wife (Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley

Barbara Shelley is an English film and television actress.She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon , Dracula, Prince of Darkness , Rasputin, the Mad Monk , andQuatermass and the Pit among her...

) of a jewel fence. The wife then convinces the author to rob her husband but soon after the robbery the jewel fence winds up dead.

Sources

• http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/movieDetails/56840
• http://movies.tvguide.com/end-line/113943
• http://www.fandango.com/theendoftheline_v90467/summary