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Port of Escape
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Port of Escape

May 1, 1956
1h 16m
★ 5.4

Overview

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Wellington

Port of Escape Trailers

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Cast

Googie Withers

Anne Stirling

Googie Withers

John McCallum

Mitch Gillis

John McCallum

Bill Kerr

Dinty Missouri

Bill Kerr

Joan Hickson

Rosalie Watchett

Joan Hickson

Wendy Danielli

Daphne Stirling

Wendy Danielli

Hugh Pryse

Skinner

Hugh Pryse

Alexander Gauge

Inspector Levins

Alexander Gauge

Ewan Roberts

Sergeant Rutherford

Ewan Roberts

Gerald Andersen

Det. Sgt. Shafto (as Gerald Anderson)

Gerald Andersen

Basil Dignam

Det. Sgt. Crawford

Basil Dignam

Ingeborg von Kusserow

Lucy (as Ingeborg Wells)

Ingeborg von Kusserow

Cameron Hall

Bates

Cameron Hall

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