The Passing Stranger is a 1954 British crime film written and directed by John Arnold, and starring Lee Patterson, Diane Cilento and Duncan Lamont.

After falling in with a gang of criminals, he is on the run after a robbery went wrong, and hides up at a roadside café near a small British town (Banbury).

Technically, in all departments except sound, The Passing Stranger is well above the average of its kind; but its story is implausible, thinly written and poorly constructed, its characterisation unconvincing, and its direction fails to impose any clear narrative grasp.

Lee Patterson and Duncan Lamont play very adequately, Diane Cilento is miscast but has an interesting personality, and the rest of the acting is poor.

"[2] Kine Weekly said "The picture opens promisingly but its characters soon prove to be cardboard and instead of getting down to brass tacks wear their hearts on their sleeves and talk their heads off.