Hunted

A cinematic milestone blending the anguish of film noir with the pathos of neorealism.

  • Director

    Charles Crichton

  • With

    Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh

  • UK 1952. 85min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

This lyrical film sees Bogarde’s fugitive murderer take a war-orphaned boy who witnessed his crime on the run with him. As they flee London for Scotland, an unexpected bond forms between the pair. Occupying a middle ground between the cinema of Roberto Rossellini and British rubble crime films, Hunted was the first British film to win Locarno Film Festival’s top prize, the Golden Leopard.

+ A Diary for Timothy

UK 1945. Director Humphrey Jennings. 39min. 35mm. A BFI National Archive print. U

This celebrated docudrama, conceived as a cinematic letter to a newborn boy, explains the kind of future that awaits him.

The screening of Hunted on Monday 11 May will be introduced by season curator Ehsan Khoshbakt.

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