Hunted (1952) ( The Stranger in Between )

Hunted (1952) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Stranger in Between
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
81 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Charles Crichton

Written By:
Michael McCarthy
Jack Whittingham

Actors:
Dirk Bogarde ..... Chris Lloyd
Kay Walsh ..... Mrs. Sykes
Elizabeth Sellars ..... Magda Lloyd
Geoffrey Keen ..... Det. Insp. Deakin
Frederick Piper ..... Mr. Sykes
Jane Aird ..... Mrs. Campbell
Julian Somers ..... Jack Lloyd
Jon Whiteley ..... Robbie
Jack Stewart ..... Mr. Campbell
Douglas Blackwell ..... Det. Sgt. Grayson
Leonard White ..... Police station sergeant
Gerald Anderson ..... Assistant Commissioner
Denis Webb ..... Chief Superintendent
Gerald Case ..... Deputy Assistant Commissioner
John Bushelle ..... Chief Inspector

Synopsis:

One of Bogarde's finest films! A child stumbles across an edgy man in an abandoned warehouse. Fearing that the boy has witnessed the murder he has just committed, he grabs him and they go on the run. From this taut beginning, the film develops into a study of the pair on the run and of the demons that pursue them. Bogarde, in one of his earlier starring roles, bristles with abrupt violence and fiery magnetism as the everyday man who has stepped outside the law, and his gradual redemption and growing fondness for young Robbie (played by Jon Whitely) is believable and touching. Directed by Charles Crichton, the film produces a tense, forbidding atmosphere with imagery and occasionally echoing that of Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter

Robbie (Jon Whiteley), an orphaned 6 year-old Scottish boy, has been placed with uncaring and harsh adoptive parents in London. Having accidentally set a small fire in the house, and fearing he will receive severe punishment as he has in the past for misdemeanours, he flees into the London streets. He finally takes shelter in a derelict bombed-out building, where he stumbles across Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde) and the body of the man Lloyd has just killed - his employer, who Lloyd had discovered was having an affair with his wife. Now on the run, and aware that Robbie is the only witness to his crime, Lloyd realises that he will have to get out of London and that he has no option but to take the boy with him. The film follows the pair as they travel northwards towards Scotland with the police in somewhat baffled pursuit, and charts the developing relationship between the two. Initially Lloyd regards Robbie dismissively, as an unwanted inconvenience, while Robbie is wary and suspicious of Lloyd. As their journey progresses however, the pair gradually develop a strong bond of friendship, trust and common cause, with both feeling they have burned their bridges and now have nothing to lose. They finally reach a small Scottish fishing port, where Lloyd steals a boat and sets sail for Ireland. During the voyage Robbie falls seriously ill, and Lloyd turns the boat back towards Scotland, where he knows the police are waiting for him.

Dirk Bogarde stars in this emotional melodrama as an escaped murderer, sloshing through the North Country mud. Bogarde is reluctantly saddled with a fugitive orphan boy (Jon Whitely), who insists upon tagging along. The murderer ends up sacrificing his freedom to rescue the injured boy from certain death.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 25 May, 2012.

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