
Directing
Montgomery Tully
Born — Died
1904-05-06 — 1988-10-10
Place of birth
Edmonton, London, England, UK
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Montgomery Tully (6 May 1904 – 10 October 1988) was an Irish film director and writer. Born in Dublin, Tully studied at the University of London, and originally entered the film industry as a director of documentaries. Later, Tully worked on low-budget British films, and is mostly known for his crime dramas. One of his films, No Road Back (1957), featured Sean Connery in a very early role. His last film, The Terrornauts, was made in 1967. He also worked in television, directing episodes of shows including Edgar Wallace Mysteries, Kraft Mystery Theatre, Man from Interpol and Fabian of the Yard.
Known for
6.0Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Jackpot
1960
4.8Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. [Netflix]
Middle Course
1961
5.8A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
No Road Back
1957
5.6A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
The Glass Cage
1955
10.0An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Boy With a Flute
1964
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.0Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Jackpot
1960
6.0Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Jackpot
1960
4.8Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. [Netflix]
Middle Course
1961
5.8A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
No Road Back
1957
5.8A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
No Road Back
1957
5.6A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
The Glass Cage
1955
10.0An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Boy With a Flute
1964
10.0An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Boy With a Flute
1964
10.0An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Boy With a Flute
1964
7.0A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.
The Man Who Was Nobody
1960
7.0Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
Out of the Fog
1962
7.0Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
Out of the Fog
1962
8.0The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
Man in the Shadow
1957
4.9An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.
Escapement
1958
6.1When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
36 Hours
1953
5.5When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
The House in Marsh Road
1960
5.0An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
A Tale of Five Cities
1951
6.5Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
She Knows Y'Know
1962
6.5Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
She Knows Y'Know
1962
6.5Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
Dead Lucky
1960
8.0A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Who Killed the Cat?
1966
8.0A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Who Killed the Cat?
1966
6.8Tom Murray's wedding day takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious woman arrives uninvited and claims to be his wife.
Two Wives at One Wedding
1961
5.8A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
Man with a Gun
1958
6.1A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
I Only Arsked
1958
7.0Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an insurance investigator of being a notorious -- and murderous -- jewel thief. Can Bob restore his reputation and regain Kathy's trust? Desperate to prove his innocence, Bob engineers a daring jailbreak and pursues the real culprit. Montgomery Tully directs this crime drama.
Man Accused
1959
10.0Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.
Waltz Time
1945
5.9Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club, he discovers that Oldchester are desperate for promotion as they stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...
Small Town Story
1953
6.4The host of a radio crime show finds himself mixed up with real gangsters after he re-creates a notorious murder on the air. He uses his knowledge of criminology to foil the gang's wicked scheme.
The Key Man
1957
6.0Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
The Price of Silence
1959
6.6A composer is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
The Third Alibi
1961
6.6A composer is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
The Third Alibi
1961
6.7Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
Murder in Reverse
1945
6.7Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.
Murder in Reverse
1945
5.3Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
The Hypnotist
1957
5.3Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
The Hypnotist
1957
6.7The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947
6.7The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947
9.0Young nurse Jill Holden gets involved with an extortion gang targeting Mrs Cheam, one of her patients. When Mrs. Cheam is murdered, Jill becomes a suspect and must clear her name.
The Long Knife
1958

