This was just shown today on British tv and I had never seen it before. The lead actress is Lydia Clarke, none other than Charlton Heston's wife in the first part of their life long marriage and at the time he was just starting his Hollywood career. It would have been interesting if he had taken the role of the husband in the film.
It is a good, modest thriller with some interesting location work.
I won't give too much away but when you think about it what the kidnappers plan to do to the boy at the very end of the movie is cold blooded and nasty.
Lydia Clarke has some good scenes early in the film. Interesting too to see Milburn Stone just three years before Gunsmoke started.
Worth watching.
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