Sorry, this movie sucks

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Murder on The Campus is very much a B movie, it's not one I think many who saw it would have remembered for very long, as there is very little that's unique or exciting about it. That's said it's still an enhenjoyable watch, with a few twists and a few moments of intrigue. The acting is decent, solid enough, Longdon is solid in the lead role. I think of the fifties and sixties as a classic time for whodunnits, sadly this isn't one of the obscure gems.Worth a look, but not one you'll remember for very long.

The very annoying music all the way through just wasn't needed, maybe it was this that put me off or maybe it was the acting or maybe it was with watching the superb 'Scotland Yard' series that's being run at the moment on the equally superb Talking pictures tv, could be.

Michael Winner had a long and illustrious career as a notorious director of exploitation and bad taste movies until his death in 2013. He started out on his career back in the early 1960s with a series of documentary shorts and low budget black-and-white potboilers, and OUT OF THE SHADOW is one such production.The movie was shot in and around Cambridge with the university playing a large role in the proceedings, hence the alternate title MURDER ON THE CAMPUS. CARRY ON REGARDLESS actor Terence Longdon is the erstwhile hero, investigating the death of his brother who was thrown out of a college window. Before long he encounters a conspiracy of silence and soon attracts the attention of a murderer keen to cover up his crime.OUT OF THE SHADOW is certainly adequate as a B-movie thriller and no better or worse than the type of product being put out by Francis Searle and Butcher's Film Studios during the same era. Longdon is a likable lead and the supporting cast give some good performances, particularly Diane Clare (PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES). It's not the kind of film that will blow your mind but it trundles along merrily enough and Winner shows some talent at even this early stage of his career.

"Murder on the Campus" was Michael Winner's second film. It was actually made in England in 1957 under the title "The Clock Strikes Eight". It is a very routine muder mystery with little to recommend it. It is what was known as a "Quota Quickie", a second feature, made on the cheap to enable British theatre owners to fulfill their quota - a legal requirement that a set percentage of all footage shown in British movie theatres had to be British in origin.