The Child and the Killer

The Child and the Killer
British quad poster
Directed by Max Varnel
Produced by Edward J. Danziger
Harry Lee Danziger
Written by Brian Clemens
Eldon Howard
Starring Patricia Driscoll
Robert Arden
Ryck Rydon
Richard Williams
Music by Albert Elms
Cinematography James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson)
Edited by Maurice Rootes
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists Corporation (UK)
Release date
 February 1959 (UK)
Running time
 65 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Child and the Killer is a British low budget 1959 crime film.[1] [2] It was also known as The Man in the Shadows. [3]

Plot

Joe, a US army officer, is on the run after committing murder. He invades the home of the widowed Peggy, and orders her son Tommy at gunpoint to guide him through the backwaters of the English countryside to safety. But he reckons without U.S. army Captain Mather, who is in love with Tommy's mother.

Cast

  • Peggy - Patricia Driscoll
  • Joe - Robert Arden
  • Tommy - Richard Williams
  • Mather - Ryck Rydon
  • Major Finch - John McLaren
  • Inspector - Robert Raglan
  • Prior - Gary Thorne
  • Sergeant - Gordon Sterne
  • White - Frank Ellement

Critical reception

TV Guide called it a "routine crime melodrama";[4] while Allmovie thought the film had "elements in common with the much-later Kevin Costner vehicle A Perfect World".[5]

References

  1. ↑ "The Child and the Killer (1959)". BFI.
  2. ↑ "Child And The Killer, The (1959) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  3. ↑ "The Child and the Killer". FilmAffinity.
  4. ↑ "The Child And The Killer". TVGuide.com.
  5. ↑ Hal Erickson. "The Child and the Killer (1959) - Max Varnel - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
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