''Out of the Shadow'' (also known as ''Murder on the Campus'') is a 1961 British

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directed by

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and starring

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and

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Plot

Mark Kingston, a reporter, is informed that his brother, a student at

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

, 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

as Mark Kingston *

as Mary Johnson *

as Inspector Wills *

as Ronald Fortescue *

as Professor Taylor * Felicity Young as Waitress * Douglas Muir as Killer *

Mark Eden Douglas John Malin (14 February 1928 – 1 January 2021), known professionally as Mark Eden, was an English actor. He was best known for his portrayal of villainous Alan Bradley in ''Coronation Street'' from 1986 to 1989. Early life Mark Ede ...

as Police Constable * Harold Siddons as Newspaper Editor *

Jill Hyem Jill Hyem (8 January 1937 – 5 June 2015) was a British actor, and radio and television writer. Early life and acting career Jill Hyem was born in 1937 in Putney, London, England, to Hilda (''née'' Gladwell) and Rex, a solicitor, and was raised ...

as Joy Clark

Review

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'."

DVD release

The film was released on DVD in the UK in October 2013, in a two-film collection with the thriller ''

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'' (1954). Instead of being called ''Out of the Shadow'', it was given the title ''Murder on the Campus'', even though there is no campus in Cambridge.

References

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