Review of The Fugitive

You recognise the moods, the characters, the situations, the environment, the hopelessness and the profound pathos of love from "Odd Man Out" eight years later by the same author, who apparently was obsessed with the theme of the outsider being hunted to death but always nevertheless finding a way out. Here the love story is more mature, they are married and deeply in love with each other and have a baby, when Ralph Richardson is subject to an irresistible temptation as he passes by a window and sees a lot of money lying on the table. That's the first crime, starting the vicious circle of consecutive crimes resulting from the first one, going inevitably from bad to worse. You can understand them, he is.a barber and they live in small circumstances in humdrum squalid quarters, and she feels guilty for his crime since she by her extravagant expenses have put them in debt - to a blackmailer. So they have no choice but to protect each other as far as possible, and naturally there are other circumstances sabotaging their efforts, like a city fire and a dreadful car accident. It's sad story but brilliantly acted by Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard, always a supreme beauty, accompanied by a great score by Miklos Rosza; but the best scenes are the mass scenes, mainly at the pub centering around the balmy Lizzie, an old tramp who is a regular customer with the police. It's a great prelude to "Odd Man Out", and it's interesting to compare them, both for their differences and their common assets.