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Hunted (U.S. The Stranger In Between) is a British Noir crime film directed by Charles Crichton and released in 1952. Hunted is a crime drama in the form of a chase film, starring Dirk Bogarde, and written by Jack Whittingham and Michael McCarthy.
The Stranger in Between: Directed by Charles Crichton. With Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh. A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Charles Crichton
- 1952-03-17
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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- British Film-Makers, Independent Artists
- Charles Crichton
Haunting yet beautiful, firm but tender, Hunted is a terrific piece of Brit film noir that holds you in its grip from beginning to end. Film unfolds as being about two lost souls traversing the British lands, from a ravaged London in the beginning to a Scottish harbour at the end.
The noir-tinged 1952 British drama Hunted, now available on Region 1 DVD from distributor VCI, is a gem of a movie, as good as the best adult-child relationship dramas produced over the years -- titles like The Champ (1931), Captains Courageous (1937), and Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World (1993), which seems in particular to have been heavily ...
- Charles Crichton
- Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley
Director. Jack Whittingham. Screenplay. An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Hunted portrayed the flight and pursuit across England of seaman Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde), on the run after killing his wife’s lover, accompanied by young orphaned Scottish boy Robbie Campbell (Jon Whiteley) who has absconded from his foster home.