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.
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| Directed by | Peter Graham Scott |
| Produced by | Leslie Parkyn Julian Wintle |
| Written by | Peter Barnes |
| Based on | the book Breakout by Frederick Oughton[1] |
| Starring | Lee Patterson Hazel Court Terence Alexander Dermot Kelly |
| Cinematography | Eric Cross |
| Edited by | Eric Boyd-Perkins |
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| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK) |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Cast
- Lee Patterson as George Munro
- Hazel Court as Rita Arkwright
- Terence Alexander as Farrow
- William Lucas as Chandler
- John Paul as Arkwright
- Billie Whitelaw as Rose Munro
- Dermot Kelly as O'Quinn
- Estelle Brody as Maureen O'Quinn
- Rupert Davies as Morgan
- Lloyd Lamble as Inspector
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
- Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.
- "Breakout (1959)". BFI.
- "Reelstreets | Breakout". www.reelstreets.com.
- "Breakout".