Reporter Mark Kingston is informed that his brother, a student at Cambridge University, has committed suicide, but he is not convinced. The police dismiss his suspicions, so he begins his own investigation with the help of Mary Johnson, whose father, a professor, has gone missing.
The reviewer for Kine Weekly wrote: "The tale is a bit involved but the characters, adequately portrayed, are briskly shuffled, its light relief is apt, the romantic asides are agreeable, and it ends on a lively, if hardly unexpected, note. What’s more, the backgrounds are authentic. Safe quota 'second'."[2]
Monthly Film Bulletin said: "A not uninteresting plot, if perhaps too liberally loaded with red herrings, and the Cambridge settings are the best features in an otherwise shoddily-made and -played second feature."[3]
DVD release
The film was released on DVD in the UK in October 2013, in a two-film collection with the thriller Final Appointment (1954). Instead of being called Out of the Shadow, it was given the title Murder on the Campus, even though there is no campus in Cambridge.
References
^"Out of the Shadow". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
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