The Child and the Killer
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Duration Country United Kingdom | 4/10 IMDb Genre Crime Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date February 1959 (UK) Cast Similar movies The Depraved (1957), A Woman of Mystery (1958), Code of Scotland Yard (1947), Radio Cab Murder (1954), The Embezzler (1954) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Child and the Killer is a low budget 1959 crime film. It was also known as The Man in the Shadows.
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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.
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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".
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