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The Child and the Killer is a British film of genre Drama directed by Max Varnel with Robert Arden
The Child and the Killer (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe 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.Actors
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