The Long Shadow | |
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Directed by | Peter Maxwell |
Written by | Manning O'Brine |
Produced by | John Pellatt |
Starring | John Crawford Susan Hampshire |
Cinematography | Norman Warwick |
Edited by | Allan Morrison |
Music by | Bill McGuffie |
Production company | Argo Film Productions |
Distributed by | J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Long Shadow is a 1961 British second feature ('B') [1] drama film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring John Crawford, Susan Hampshire and Willoughby Goddard. [2] It was written by Manning O'Brine and filmed at Pinewood Studios. [3]
In Vienna during the Cold War, the Russians and Americans try to gain control of a boy who can be manipulated for political purposes. An American newspaper journalist attempts to save the Hungarian child and a Swedish nurse from certain death.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Yet another adventure of that meddlesome, gallant, punch-drunk type, the American foreign correspondent, this time engaged in spy-bashing and the foiling of kidnappers in a remarkably unconcerned Austria. As usual the mackintosh-clad East Europeans talk sinister but fight fair and are deservedly thwarted with heavy casualties. Perhaps what this worn-out fantasy genre needs to refurbish it is a drama about a sub-editor, kept late at the office impatiently revising the undoubtedly ill-phrased, garbled copy of these screen journalists-of-fortune who show talent for almost every activity but writing." [4]