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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A murderer has escaped from the prison for the criminally insane. The doctor in charge hesitates to sound the alarm and rouse the county. At the same time, Derrin Nesbitt appears at the back door of a farmhouse and asks for some water. He's been walking all day. He's young, he's good-looking, and the daughter of the house, Julie Hopkins, takes a fancy to him.
It's a nicely done thriller, with some nice characterizations about it; particularly good is Peter Swanwick as the dithery doctor, whom the audience quickly comes to view with contempt.... until he insists that the police and the local squire, who has been stalking around with a rifle, ready to shoot some one, stand back, while he goes into the barn where they think the mad man is hiding: he may not be a fast thinker, but he is no coward.
In the end, the writing is too neat, the 'normal' people too hysterical, to offer a balanced view of the rights of the individual against public safety. Still, until the very end, it is a tense and worrying scenario.
It's a nicely done thriller, with some nice characterizations about it; particularly good is Peter Swanwick as the dithery doctor, whom the audience quickly comes to view with contempt.... until he insists that the police and the local squire, who has been stalking around with a rifle, ready to shoot some one, stand back, while he goes into the barn where they think the mad man is hiding: he may not be a fast thinker, but he is no coward.
In the end, the writing is too neat, the 'normal' people too hysterical, to offer a balanced view of the rights of the individual against public safety. Still, until the very end, it is a tense and worrying scenario.
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- boblipton
- Jun 28, 2020
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- Release date
- 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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