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The Child and the Killer is a British film of genre Crime directed by Max Varnel with Robert Arden

The Child and the Killer (1959)

The Child and the Killer
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Length 1h5
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Genres Crime
Rating47% 2.369452.369452.369452.369452.36945

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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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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