Plots(1)
If the plot of the 1993 Kevin Costner film A Perfect World seemed vaguely familiar, perhaps it's because it bears a more than passing resemblance to the British-made 1952 thriller The Hunted. Dirk Bogarde stars in this emotional melodrama as an escaped murderer, sloshing through the North Country mud. Bogarde is reluctantly saddled with a fugitive orphan boy (Jon Whitely), who insists upon tagging along. The murderer ends up sacrificing his freedom to rescue the injured boy from certain death. While The Hunted was greeted with moderate enthusiasm in Britain, its virtues were trumped by the French film critics of the era. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Dirk Bogarde
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Damned (1969)
Jon Whiteley
UK
Best movies:
The Weapon (1956)
Moonfleet (1955)
Elizabeth Sellars
UK
Best movies:
Never Let Go (1960)
Desirée (1954)
The Hireling (1973)
Geoffrey Keen
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Born Free (1966)
The Third Man (1949)
Frederick Piper
UK
Best movies:
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Sabotage (1936)
Kay Walsh
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
The Magic Box (1951)
Scrooge (1970)
Grace Arnold
UK
Best movies:
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Went the Day Well? (1942)
Jack Stewart
UK
Best movies:
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
A Night to Remember (1958)
The Frightened City (1961)
Katharine Blake
South Africa
Best movies:
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Gerald Case
UK
Best movies:
Ewen Solon
New Zealand
Best movies:
The Silent Enemy (1958)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Patrick Westwood
UK
Best movies:
The Last Valley (1971)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Sam Kydd
UK
Best movies:
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Douglas Blackwell
UK
Best movies:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
The Ipcress File (1965)
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Alec Finter
UK
Best movies:
Yield to the Night (1956)
Julian Somers
UK
Best movies:
The One That Got Away (1957)
Room at the Top (1959)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Molly Urquhart
UK
Best movies:
The Nun's Story (1959)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Tony Doonan
UK
Best movies:
The Dam Busters (1955)
The Angry Silence (1960)
Two Way Stretch (1960)