Dirk Bogarde

HUNTED

Also known as "The Stranger in Between"

J. Arthur Rank, 1952.  Directed by Charles Crichton.  Camera:  Eric Cross.  With Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh, Frederick Piper, Julian Somers, Jane Aird, Jack Stewart, Geoffrey Keen, Douglas Blackwell, Leonard White, Gerald Andersen, Denis Webb, Gerald Case, John Bushelle.

An escaped murderer, sloshing through the North Country mud, is reluctantly saddled with a fugitive orphan boy who insists upon tagging along.  The murderer ends up sacrificing his freedom to rescue the injured boy from certain death.

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