Out of the Shadow (1961 film)

Out of the Shadow
Out of the Shadow
Directed by	Michael Winner
Written by	Michael Winner
Produced by	Olive Negus-Fancey; Michael Winner
Starring	Terence Longdon; Donald Gray; Diane Clare ; Robertson Hare; Dermot Walsh
Cinematography	Dick Bayley
Music by	Jackie Brown; Cy Payne
Production; company	Border Film Productions
Distributed by	New Realm Pictures
Release date	1961;
Running time	61 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Out of the Shadow (also known as Murder on the Campus) is a 1961 British thriller film directed and written by Michael Winner and starring Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare and Dermot Walsh.^[1]

Plot

Reporter Mark Kingston is informed that his brother, a student at Cambridge University, has committed suicide, but he is not convinced. The police dismiss his suspicions, so he begins his own investigation with the help of Mary Johnson, whose father, a professor, has gone missing.

Cast

Terence Longdon as Mark Kingston
Diane Clare as Mary Johnson
Donald Gray as Inspector Wills
Robertson Hare as Ronald Fortescue
Dermot Walsh as Professor Taylor
Felicity Young as waitress
Douglas Muir as Sergeant Willoughby
Mark Eden as Police Constable
Harold Siddons as newspaper editor
Jill Hyem as Joy Clark

Cricital reception

The reviewer for Kine Weekly wrote: "The tale is a bit involved but the characters, adequately portrayed, are briskly shuffled, its light relief is apt, the romantic asides are agreeable, and it ends on a lively, if hardly unexpected, note. What’s more, the backgrounds are authentic. Safe quota 'second'."^[2]

Monthly Film Bulletin said: "A not uninteresting plot, if perhaps too liberally loaded with red herrings, and the Cambridge settings are the best features in an otherwise shoddily-made and -played second feature."^[3]

DVD release

The film was released on DVD in the UK in October 2013, in a two-film collection with the thriller Final Appointment (1954). Instead of being called Out of the Shadow, it was given the title Murder on the Campus, even though there is no campus in Cambridge.

References

^ "Out of the Shadow". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
^ "Out of the Shadow". Kine Weekly. 529 (2802): 19. 15 June 1961 – via ProQuest.
^ "Out of the Shadow". Monthly Film Bulletin. 28 (324): 99. 1 January 1961 – via ProQuest.