The Long Shadow is a 1961 British second feature ('B')[1] drama film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring John Crawford, Susan Hampshire and Willoughby Goddard.

[3] In Vienna during the Cold War, the Russians and Americans try to gain control of a boy who can be manipulated for political purposes.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Yet another adventure of that meddlesome, gallant, punch-drunk type, the American foreign correspondent, this time engaged in spy-bashing and the foiling of kidnappers in a remarkably unconcerned Austria.

As usual the mackintosh-clad East Europeans talk sinister but fight fair and are deservedly thwarted with heavy casualties.

Perhaps what this worn-out fantasy genre needs to refurbish it is a drama about a sub-editor, kept late at the office impatiently revising the undoubtedly ill-phrased, garbled copy of these screen journalists-of-fortune who show talent for almost every activity but writing.