Bang! You're Dead

You're Dead, also known as Game of Danger, is a 1954 British second feature ('B')[1] psychological drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Jack Warner, Anthony Richmond, Veronica Hurst, Derek Farr and Sean Barrett.

Seven year old Cliff Bonsell lives a lonely life with his very elderly and widowed father in a hut on a decommissioned American army munitions stores depot in rural England.

Cliff has few friends, his main companion being the slightly older Willy Maxted, a quiet and introverted child who lives nearby with his grandmother.

[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Indifferently directed and photographed (the woodland settings might have been employed to better account), this is a second-rate melodrama which gives rather the impression of cashing in on the current screen fashion for involving children in crimes of violence.

Scenes such as Cliff's flight through the woods appear to be used to win sympathy from the audience by emphasising the child's terror, and, where the story is as contrived as it is here, the effect is slightly unpleasant.

Yet there's considerably less insight into the boy's guilt-stricken torment than in either of those films, with director Lance Comfort settling for a mildly suspenseful countdown to the predictable climax.