| The Child and the Killer | |
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| Directed by | Max Varnel |
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| Cinematography | James Wilson (as Jimmy Wilson) |
| Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
| Music by | Albert Elms |
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| Distributed by | United Artists Corporation (UK) |
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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]
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.
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]
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