The Silent Playground is a 1963 British thriller film written and directed by Stanley Goulder and starring Bernard Archard, Jean Anderson and Roland Curram.

After his mother realises that her adult son does not have all of the mental health medication that had been dispensed to him that morning, the hunt shifts to a nervous and vulnerable hospital outpatient, Simon Lacey, who has been unwittingly handing out the pills.

The main weakness is in the character of Lacey (very badly played by the actor as a drooling stage idiot) who is later turned into an entirely melodramatic figure by means of shock cuts and glowering close-ups.

"[7] Variety wrote: "Brought in in 24 days at a modest $75,000, with entire location shooting and a little known cast, this is one of British Lion's frequent recent attempts to prove that the dualler can be top level product in entertainment and technical content.

Technically he has smart aid, with crisp cutting, an evocative unobtrusive score by Tristram Carey and fine lensing by Martin Curtis which not only captures the atmosphere of the London suburb in which the pic was shot but produces some really attractive, bleak photography in river and snow sequences.