"The Limping Man" has the makings of a fairly good mystery until the let down at the end of the film, which makes a more thorough review a moot point. Lloyd Bridges stars in this British film as former military man Franklin Prior returning to London to reunite with an old flame. However Pauline French (Moira Lister) may be mixed up in some kind of trouble involving the assassination of a former lover of hers. Now she's being blackmailed by, who else, the former lover, who's not really dead.
So who's the limping man? Take your pick - the stage door manager at the theater where Helene Castle (Helene Cordet) performs walks with a cane. Assassin target turned blackmailer Kendall Brown (Tom Gill) uses a rifle fashioned as a walking stick. This would have all been wonderful fun if Bridges' character hadn't suddenly awoke from his trans-Atlantic flight to discover that he had just arrived in London, with character Brown sitting behind him on the plane. Shades of Dallas and Bobby Ewing, but at least you didn't waste an entire season of episodes to get hoodwinked. Here, it took less than an hour and a half.
So who's the limping man? Take your pick - the stage door manager at the theater where Helene Castle (Helene Cordet) performs walks with a cane. Assassin target turned blackmailer Kendall Brown (Tom Gill) uses a rifle fashioned as a walking stick. This would have all been wonderful fun if Bridges' character hadn't suddenly awoke from his trans-Atlantic flight to discover that he had just arrived in London, with character Brown sitting behind him on the plane. Shades of Dallas and Bobby Ewing, but at least you didn't waste an entire season of episodes to get hoodwinked. Here, it took less than an hour and a half.