The Long Shadow (1961 film)

In Vienna during the Cold War, the Russians and Americans try to gain control of a boy who can be manipulated for political purposes. An American newspaper journalist attempts to save the Hungarian child and a Swedish nurse from certain death. ==Cast==

• John Crawford as Kelly • Susan Hampshire as Gunilla • Willoughby Goddard as Schober • Humphrey Lestocq as Bannister • Rory O'Brine as Ruchi Korbanyi • Anne Castaldini as Magda • Margaret Robertson as mother • Bill Nagy as Garity • Lily Kann as old lady • Hana-Maria Pravda as matron • Gisele Burke as Lisel • Sean Sullivan as Burgen == Reception ==

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Yet another adventure of that meddlesome, gallant, punch-drunk type, the American foreign correspondent, this time engaged in spy-bashing and the foiling of kidnappers in a remarkably unconcerned Austria. As usual the mackintosh-clad East Europeans talk sinister but fight fair and are deservedly thwarted with heavy casualties. Perhaps what this worn-out fantasy genre needs to refurbish it is a drama about a sub-editor, kept late at the office impatiently revising the undoubtedly ill-phrased, garbled copy of these screen journalists-of-fortune who show talent for almost every activity but writing." ==References==