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The Child and the Killer
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Wikipedia article
'The Child and the Killer' is a British low budget 1959 crime film. It was also known as 'The Man in the Shadows'.
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
*Patricia Driscoll as Peggy
*Robert Arden as Joe
*Richard Williams as Tommy
*Ryck Rydon as Mather
*John McLaren as Major Finch
*Robert Raglan as Inspector
*Gary Thorne as Prior
*Gordon Sterne as Sergeant
*Frank Ellement as White
Critical reception
'TV Guide' called it a "routine crime melodrama"; while AllMovie thought the film had "elements in common with the much-later Kevin Costner vehicle 'A Perfect World'".
References
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