Wonder why IMDB changed the title? I couldn't find this using 'search'! Anyway my DVD is called 'Hunted'.
I was struck by how roughly Dirk Bogarde treated the little boy. Pushing, pulling, yanking him about. Almost made me hate him! I don't think that would be allowed now in a film.
Interesting to see London just after the war, all those bombed out buildings - a very atmospheric film.
It definitely wouldn't be allowed today, neither would six years old Jon Whiteley be allowed to stand on the parapet of a real bridge while a real freight train rumbled by beneath him. What if he had lost his footing and slipped? He would have been killed for sure! It looks real because it is real. But it just goes to show that children 65 years ago weren't thought of as being that important. It was a different era, to be sure. As to why the Americans changed the title to the meaningless 'The Stranger In Between', well that's anybody's guess.
shareAnother aspect of 1950's and 60's movies that is noticeable is the number of kids playing on the streets, sitting in gutters, skipping, clambering onto passing cars! Where are they all now? Stuck in front of their Ipads probably.
shareQuite right. For the past 30 years, the media, in an effort to cause alarm and sell more newspapers, have convinced the general public that there's a child abductor on every street corner just waiting to pounce, which is, of course, total nonsense. However, it has lead to parents not allowing their children out to play any more, storing up health and fitness problems for the future and, unlike my early 1950s childhood, when we had perfect freedom to play out and to roam and mixed freely with grown ups and had no fear of them, these days, an adult man, unless he is related to the child, is forbidden by law to speak to a child in the street, at peril of arrest for the strangely titled crime of 'grooming', which is something you once did to horses. Thus, children are no longer allowed to have any adult role models and any man who expresses a desire to work with children and help them is treated with great suspicion. Yes, the mass media have created a monster...a paranoid population who believe that all men are out to harm children. So the situation of children 65 years ago in 'Hunted' has now been entirely reversed and the protection of children has gone way over the top and is stifling their lives. It's an absolute tragedy.
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