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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]

The Child and the Killer
British quad poster
Directed by	Max Varnel
Written by	Brian Clemens Eldon Howard
Produced by	Edward J. Danziger Harry Lee Danziger
Starring	Patricia Driscoll Robert Arden Ryck Rydon Richard Williams
Cinematography	James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson)
Edited by	Maurice Rootes
Music by	Albert Elms
Production company	Danziger Productions
Distributed by	United Artists Corporation (UK)
Release date	February 1959 (1959-02) (UK)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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";[4] while AllMovie thought the film had "elements in common with the much-later Kevin Costner vehicle A Perfect World".[5]

References

External links

• The Child and the Killer at IMDb

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