Breakout (1959 film)

Breakout is a 1959 British film noir drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, Terence Alexander.[2] A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Breakout
Directed byPeter Graham Scott
Produced byLeslie Parkyn
Julian Wintle
Written byPeter Barnes
Based onthe book Breakout by Frederick Oughton[1]
StarringLee Patterson
Hazel Court
Terence Alexander
Dermot Kelly
CinematographyEric Cross
Edited byEric Boyd-Perkins
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • March 1959 (1959-03)
(UK)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Cast

Locations

Among the locations used in the film was the West End area of Aldershot in Hampshire. The gates of the East Cavalry Barracks on Barrack Road stood in for the prison gates used in the breakout. Other scenes were filmed in Uxbridge - then in Middlesex but now in west London.[3]

Critical reception

Sky Movies noted a "Low-budget, but very tense prison escape thriller, with a suitably tough performance from Canadian-born actor Lee Patterson as the jailbreak expert. The suspense also owes a debt to edgy performances from a number of faces familiar in British films, including Hazel Court, John Paul, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Rupert Davies, Dermot Kelly and Terence Alexander. A gripper."[4]

References

  1. Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 via Google Books.
  2. "Breakout (1959)". BFI.
  3. "Reelstreets | Breakout". www.reelstreets.com.
  4. "Breakout".


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