Paul Evans 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.

Leofwine_draca 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.

nova-63 A reporter (Terence Longdon) probes the mysterious death of his brother, who fell out of the window of his college dorm room. Without anything to go on, except his own curiosity, Longdon begins asking questions. When the police and the college staff are evasive in their answers, he digs in his heels and starts his own probe. Longdon turns to his brother's classmates and friends. He schedules a meeting with a student who saw someone walking on the roof of his brother's apartment on the night he fell. But minutes before the meeting time, the student is found dead, another victim of an accident. Now even the police are willing to believe that there is more here than just two accidental deaths.The print I saw had the title, Murder On The Campus, and ran the full 61 minutes. Finally, the 3.5 viewer rating is ridiculous. This is a well made British B mystery. Nothing terrific but hardly 3.5. Another curious example of how IMDb handles ratings. Don't pass this up because of the rating.

Sylvester "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.