Montgomery Tully was an Irish

Irish people

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 film director

Film director

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 and writer

Writer

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. Born in Dublin, Tully worked on low-budget British

United Kingdom

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 films, mostly crime dramas. One of his efforts, No Road Back

No Road Back

No Road Back is a 1957 British B picture crime drama, notable mainly for being the first major film role for future filmstar Sean Connery. Connery's role is that of a minor gangster, Spike, who has a speech impediment.-Cast:...

, featured a young Sean Connery

Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...

 in a very early role. His last film The Terrornauts

The Terrornauts

-Synopsis:Project Star Talk is based at a UK radio telescope site, its mission is to listen for radio signals from other intelligences. Dr Joe Burke is the head of the project assisted by his small team consisting of electronics expert Ben Keller and office manager Sandy Lund . Due to the lack of...

was made in 1967; he also worked in television directing episodes of shows like Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a low-budget film series made as second features.They were produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated between 1960 and 1965...

, Kraft Mystery Theatre, Man from Interpol and Fabian of the Yard

Fabian of the Yard

Fabian of the Yard was a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, made by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest police procedural to be made for British TV, sharing...

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Partial filmography

• Mrs. Fitzherbert
  Mrs. Fitzherbert
  Mrs. Fitzherbert is a 1947 British historical drama film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Peter Graves, Joyce Howard and Leslie Banks...
  
  (1947)
• Small Town Story
  Small Town Story
  Small Town Story is a 1953 British thriller, directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Donald Houston and Susan Shaw . The film is set in the world of association football and features appearances from sporting legend Denis Compton and commentator Raymond Glendenning, as well as players from the...
  
  (1953)
• The Price of Silence
  The Price of Silence (1959 film)
  The Price of Silence is a 1959 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn, Maya Koumani and Terence Alexander.-Cast:* Gordon Jackson - Roger Fenton* June Thorburn - Audrey Truscott...
  
  (1959)
• Dead Lucky
  Dead Lucky
  Dead Lucky is a 1960 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Vincent Ball, Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, Alfred Burke and Michael Ripper...
  
  (1960)
• The Terrornauts
  The Terrornauts
  -Synopsis:Project Star Talk is based at a UK radio telescope site, its mission is to listen for radio signals from other intelligences. Dr Joe Burke is the head of the project assisted by his small team consisting of electronics expert Ben Keller and office manager Sandy Lund . Due to the lack of...
  
  
• Battle Beneath the Earth
• Who Killed the Cat?
• Master Spy
• The Third Alibi
• Two Wives at One Wedding
• The House in Marsh Road
• Dead Lucky
• Man Accused
• The Price of Silence
• The Electric Monster
• The Diplomatic Corpse
• Man in the Shadow
• The Key Man
• The Glass Cage
  The Glass Cage (1955 film)
  The Glass Cage is a 1955 British crime film starring John Ireland, Honor Blackman and Sid James. A carnival is interrupted by a couple of murders, causing the police to investigate.-Cast:* John Ireland as Pel Pelham* Honor Blackman as Jenny Pelham...
  
  
• No Road Back
  No Road Back
  No Road Back is a 1957 British B picture crime drama, notable mainly for being the first major film role for future filmstar Sean Connery. Connery's role is that of a minor gangster, Spike, who has a speech impediment.-Cast:...
  
  
• The Diamond Wizard
• Paid to Kill
• Terror Street

Two of his movies have been released on DVD

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 as part of Hammer Film Noir Double Feature while many others have been released on VHS

VHS

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 in the 1980s. Some of his commercial movies made during the 1960s such as Battle Beneath the Earth often air on TCM

TCM

-Arts and sciences:* Trinity College of Music, a leading music conservatory, based in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom* Theory of Condensed Matter group, a theoretical physics research group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge...

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