Tonight's Movie: The Long Arm (1956) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

A few days ago I reviewed CAGE OF GOLD (1950), my first film watched from Kino Lorber's Brit Noir Collection I.I'll be watching more from that set soon, but first I jumped over to the new Brit Noir Collection II, also from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, and watched THE LONG ARM (1956).THE LONG ARM, also known in Britain as THE THIRD KEY, is exactly my kind of movie, a police procedural with enjoyable leads and extensive, interesting location shooting.THE LONG ARM, like the other two films in the set, stars Jack Hawkins. Here he plays Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Tom Halliday. It's of note that a couple years later he also played a Scotland Yard detective, in John Ford's GIDEON'S DAY (1958), which I hope to see soon.Halliday is teamed for the first time with the younger Detective Sergeant Ward (John Stratton) and tasked with solving the overnight break-in of a safe.It's a curious mystery as a supposed night watchman (Richard Leech) had let in police officers when the business's…