Escape

Mar 1, 1948

1h 18m

★ 5.4

Overview

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.

Genres

Thriller

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Escape Trailers

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Cast

Matt Denant

Rex Harrison

Dora Winton

Peggy Cummins

Inspector Harris

William Hartnell

Minister

Norman Wooland

Grace Winton

Jill Esmond

Brownie

Frederick Piper

Mrs. Pinkem

Marjorie Rhodes

Girl in Park

Betty Ann Davies

Rodgers

Cyril Cusack

Salesman

John Slater

Constable Beames

Frank Pettingell

Detective Penter

Michael Golden

“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.

6.4

Cast a Dark Shadow

Sep 20, 1955

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.

6.5

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

Oct 30, 1948

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

6.0

Blackout

Mar 19, 1954

When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.

5.6

Stolen Face

May 1, 1952

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.

7.3

Odd Man Out

Jan 30, 1947

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

7.0

Footsteps in the Fog

Sep 14, 1955

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

6.7

Hell Drivers

Jul 23, 1957

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

6.5

Never Let Go

Jun 2, 1960

John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket. The car was not insured, and since the police appear indifferent to his plight, Cummings decides to find it himself -- and gets himself involved in an underworld battle.

6.2

The Clouded Yellow

Nov 21, 1950

After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.

5.9

Blind Date

Aug 1, 1959

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

6.8

Obsession

Aug 3, 1949

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

6.4

The Lodger

Jan 19, 1944

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

6.6

The Long Memory

Jan 23, 1953

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

6.3

The Good Die Young

Mar 2, 1954

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.