Two Living, One Dead (1961)

Directed by

Anthony Asquith

Genre

drama film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United Kingdom, Sweden

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A quiet post office worker gets caught in a robbery and must choose between saving himself or helping a wounded colleague. The film follows the aftermath of that choice and the moral weight it places on him.

tensebroodingslow-burnbleakpsychologicalmoodyexistentialclaustrophobic

What happens

Two Living, One Dead (also known as Två Levande Och En Död) is a 1961 British-Swedish existentialist thriller film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Patrick McGoohan, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. It was written by Asquith and Lindsay Galloway. The film is a remake of the 1937 Norwegian film To levende og en død, which in turn was adapted from the novel of the same name by author Sigurd Christiansen. The Scandinavian small-town setting of the earlier film was kept but the action was moved to Sweden. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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