48 Hours to Live

48 Hours to Live is a 1959 film starring Anthony Steel.

It was known as Man in the Middle and was shot in Sweden. The movie was little seen outside Sweden.

Premise
A New York reporter, Mike Gibson, is sent to a Swedish island, Gotland, to interview a nuclear scientist. He discovers that foreign agents have kidnapped the scientist and his daughter.

Cast

 * Anthony Steel as Mike Gibson
 * Birger Malmsten as Paul Forsman
 * Lewis Charles as Tony Marino
 * Håkan Westergren as Christenson
 * Ina Anders as Annika
 * Peter Bourne as Charlie Carlson
 * Ingemar Johansson

Production
Filming started June 1959.

Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin said "a fair amount of work in Swedish outdoor settings and a repetitive but catchy theme tune provide this ingenious comedy thriller with two tiny virtues. Otherwise the heavy handled rough stuff is funnier than the light relief; both the characterisation and the acting leave much to be desired; and – a novel departure for a film made in Sweden – the pursuit of a spy ring leads through a nudist camp inhabited, it seems, but not a single nudist."