The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.
Howard Marion-Crawford
- Major Peters
- (as Howard Marion Crawford)
Joe Beckett
- Police Dispatcher
- (uncredited)
Jim Morris
- Police Constable
- (uncredited)
Ernie Rice
- Man in Armed Group
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaOpening credits: All characters and events portrayed in this film are fictitious & any resemblance to actual persons & events is purely coincidental.
- GoofsWhen Derren Nesbitt and Julie Hopkins hide in the hay loft police tracker dogs are unable to detect them, though in real life such dogs would have no difficulty in sniffing out a human presence however well hidden.
- Quotes
Jill Shadwell: I wonder how many of them are ever cured?
Major Peters: Cured? My dear, they're criminal lunatics - they're little better than brutes.
Jill Shadwell: I suppose it is terribly difficult to know what to do with people like that.
Major Peters: Is it? What do you do with a mad dog?
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Another Derren Nesbitt sleeper. Not so good as The Man In the Back Seat
maybe, but this is still a reasonably taut British thriller which grows in stature as it goes along. Nesbitt plays the suspected maniac on the loose, eventually cornered in a hayloft after befriending children (shades of Whistle Down the Wind here) What makes this film interesting, besides Nesbitt's presence in a starring role, is the way in which the narrative plays with our genre expectations, eventually forming a critique of 'respectable' society rather than providing the predictable portrait of a loser on the run. Both Nesbitt and Julie Hopkins (in one of her few screen roles) do a good job, while the film does a subtle job of juxtaposing the world of the pub with the freedom represented by the barn. It is the gradual rediscovery of low budget efforts like these, directed by a small and often overlooked cadre of second or third-rankers, often with a cast of familiar faces, which puts the lie to the idea that for much of this time Britain was a land without cinema. Maybe it was just not the cinema that some critics were looking for, since this sort of unassuming film these days gives more immediate pleasure than some of the stuffy quality productions of the time, If this and its ilk were in French no doubt we would be hearing more about them.
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- FilmFlaneur
- Oct 8, 2019
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Menschenleben in Gefahr
- Filming locations
- Walton Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK(studio: made at)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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