Carol Reed could have made something of this, but Herbert Leder is no Carol Reed. There is nothing wrong about the story, but a thriller including children like this without any psychology becomes very thin. The best actor is Renato Baldini, and he makes almost every scene in which he acts interesting. Dolores Sutton as the mother is the only good person of any psychological insight, she knows her former husband, can read him and sees through his wicked intentions, while the main asset of the film is the great sequences around the monuments of Athens, when they are all chasing each other, one to carry through a murder, another to stop that at any cost, two fathers vying for fatherhood, and policemen all over the place without knowing what they are chasing or for what, while at least they know they have to rescue lives. As a Greek thriller drama about a child it is fairly realistic, while the child should not talk to strangers.
Review of Nine Miles to Noon
Nine Miles to Noon
(1963)
Two fathers and a child chasing each other for a right fatherhood
23 April 2024