Life in Danger

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The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.

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Opening credits: All characters and events portrayed in this film are fictitious & any resemblance to actual persons & events is purely coincidental.

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When Derren Nesbitt and Julie Hopkins hide in the hay loft police tracker dogs are unable to detect them, though in real life such dogs would have no difficulty in sniffing out a human presence however well hidden.

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Jill Shadwell: I wonder how many of them are ever cured?
Major Peters: Cured? My dear, they're criminal lunatics - they're little better than brutes.
Jill Shadwell: I suppose it is terribly difficult to know what to do with people like that.
Major Peters: Is it? What do you do with a mad dog?

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6/10

Decent curio

LIFE IN DANGER is a low budget British crime drama about a child murderer who busts out of an asylum and is at large in the local community. While the police and authorities begin a slow and largely ineffectual investigation, the local gun-toting landowners decide to take the law into their own hands and hunt for the escapee themselves.

The story boasts an excellent performance from a youthful Derren Nesbitt as the lead character, who hides out in a barn for much of the running time. Nesbitt has always exuded an edgy and dangerous persona and never more so than here. The rest of the cast aren't quite as memorable, but the writers use the story template to explore some interesting topics: trial and retribution; psychological disturbance; the mindset of a murderer; and vigilantism. It's fairly suspenseful stuff, enlivened by a great edge-of-the-seat climax.