Walk in the Shadow
Cast & Crew
Basil Dearden
Michael Craig
Janet Munro
Patrick Mcgoohan
Paul Rogers
Megs Jenkins
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Synopsis
When little Ruth Harris is injured in a boating accident and taken to a hospital, Dr. James Brown informs her distraught parents that only a blood transfusion can save her life. Because of his religious convictions, Mr. Harris refuses to give his consent. Mrs. Harris, who had superficially accepted her husband's faith when they were married, later returns to the hospital to authorize the transfusion; but it is too late, and the child is already dead. Dr. Brown, a self-professed agnostic, considers Mr. Harris' part in the girl's death tantamount to murder, and he arranges for him to be arrested and tried for manslaughter. With everyone apparently against him (even his wife has left), Harris accepts the volunteer services of a Jewish lawyer who offers a simple defense: John Harris chose to risk Ruth's temporal life rather than sacrifice her eternal one. Harris is acquitted, but he breaks under emotional strain and, realizing he had expected God to perform a miracle to save his daughter's life, attempts suicide. Dr. Brown, however, persuades him that a man must face life. Realizing that her husband needs her, Mrs. Harris returns to him, hopeful that the memory of their dead child will not always stand between them.
Director
Basil Dearden
Cast
Michael Craig
Janet Munro
Patrick Mcgoohan
Paul Rogers
Megs Jenkins
Maureen Pryor
John Barrie
Basil Dignam
Leslie Sands
Ellen Mcintosh
Frank Finlay
Michael Aldridge
Malcolm Keen
Lynne Taylor
Freddy Ramsey
Michael Bryant
Norman Wooland
Maurice Colbourne
John Welsh
Walter Hudd
Crew
William Alwyn
Jim Baker
Terry Clegg
Bert Davey
Marcel Durham
Sue Dyson
Dorothy Edwards
Harry Frampton
Fred Graver
Janet Green
John D. Guthridge
Jean Hall
Otto Heller
John Hilling
Bob Howard
Simon Kaye
Gus Lloyd
Muir Mathieson
Gordon K. Mccallum
John Mccormick
John Morgan
Charles Orme
Michael Relph
Barbara Ritchie
Vic Smith
C. C. Stevens
Arthur Taksen
H. A. R. Thomson
Donald Toms
Ron Udell
Alex Vetchinsky
George Courtney Ward
Anthony Waye
Leslie Wiggins
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Notes
Opened in London in September 1962 as Life for Ruth at 91 min.
