The Surgeon's Knife is a 1957 British crime film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri and Lyndon Brook. It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel The Wicked Flee by Anne Hocking.
Synopsis
When his patient dies during an operation, a surgeon resorts to murder to cover up his negligence.
Cast
Donald Houston as Doctor Alex Waring
Adrienne Corri as Laura Shelton
Lyndon Brook as Doctor Ian Breck
Jean Cadell as Henrietta Stevens
Sydney Tafler as Doctor Hearne
Mervyn Johns as Mr. Waring
Marie Ney as Matron Fiske
Ronald Adam as Major Tilling
John Welsh as Inspector Austen
Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Waring
Noel Hood as Sister Slater
André van Gyseghem as Mr. Dodds
Frank Forsyth as Anaesthetist
Tom Bowman as Surgeon
Susan Westerby as Miss Jenner
Betty Shale as Garsten
Critical reception
TV Guide rated the film 2/5 stars, noting a "Standard melodrama without enough suspense to be terrifying."