One of bogarde s finest films'! '.strtoupper('a') child stumbles across an edgy man in an abandoned warehouse'. '.strtoupper('f')earing that the boy has witnessed the murder he has just committed, he grabs him and they go on the run'. '.strtoupper('f')rom this taut beginning, the film develops into a study of the pair on the run and of the demons that pursue them'. '.strtoupper('b')ogarde in one of his earlier starring roles, bristles with abrupt violence and fiery magnetism as the everyday man who has stepped outside the law, and his gradual redemption and growing fondness for young robbie played by jon whitely is believable and touching'. '.strtoupper('d')irected by charles crichton, the film produces a tense, forbidding atmosphere with imagery and occasionally echoing that of charles laughton s the night of the hunter'. '.strtoupper('r')unning time 84 minutes region region 2 release date 16 jan'. '.strtoupper('2')012