The Limping Man is a 1953 British second feature ('B')[1] film noir directed by Cy Endfield and starring Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister and Leslie Phillips.

[2][3] The film was made at Merton Park Studios and was written by Ian Stuart Black and Reginald Long based on Anthony Verney's novel Death on the Tideway.

The dead man is carrying forged documents addressed to Kendall Brown (whom he is thus identified as), and a photograph that leads them to Pauline French, an actress.

After knocking the limping man unconscious, Kendall Brown ends up in a fistfight with Frank in the theatre's balcony.

Brown is revealed to be one of Frank's fellow passengers, Castle the flight attendant, and Braddock and Cameron the pilots.

Containing the usual mixture of comedy, romance, songs and excitement, it is greatly strengthened by the performances of Alan Wheatley and Leslie Phillips as the detectives.

Its story, which is about a young American who gets involved in blackmail and murder while visiting an old flame in England, ends in a dream, but the device disarms at the cost of conviction and realism.