Out of the Shadow (1961 film)

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]

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 (1961)
Running time	61 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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 (Jill)
• 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]

The 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, as Murder on the Campus, on DVD in the UK in October 2013, in a two-film collection with the thriller Final Appointment (1954).