The Gentle Gunman is a 1952 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring John Mills, Dirk Bogarde and Elizabeth Sellars.

The film is based on a 1950 play of the same title by Roger MacDougall[1] that was televised by the BBC in September 1950.

Terence (John Mills) and Matthew (Dirk Bogarde) Sullivan are two IRA men in London during World War II.

Both Terry and the IRA leader Shinto (Robert Beatty) vow to free the men and take them from their trial in Belfast to safety in the Irish Free State, but Shinto favours more violent methods than Terry.

[4] The New York Times thought that the film had "failed to search beneath the surface" of the screen-play and described much of the content as "superficial".