Escape Dangerous

Escape Dangerous
Opening titles
Directed byDigby Smith
Written byOswell Blakeston
Produced by
StarringBeresford Egan
Marianne Stone
CinematographyStanley Clinton
Edited byJoseph Levine
Music byJoseph Levine
Production
company
DS Films
Distributed byH & S Film Services
Release date
  • December 1947 (1947-12)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Escape Dangerous is a 1947 British second feature ('B')[1] drama film directed by Digby Smith and starring Beresford Egan and Marianne Stone.[2][3] It was written by Oswell Blakeston (pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher).

Cast

Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "Crude, dishevelled costume piece ... hard to follow without the aid of a synopsis, let alone without, it has little to recommend it."[4]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Cardboard historical drama."[5]

Writing in The British 'B' Film, Chibnall and MacFarlane said: "The picture was ambitious in its French Revolutionary setting and its depiction of guillotine and tumbrel, but stolid in all other respects.".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "Escape Dangerous". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  3. ^ Klossner, Michael (2002). The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company. p. 128. ISBN 978-0786477517.
  4. ^ "Escape Dangerous". Kine Weekly. 395 (2230): 22. 26 January 1950 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 206. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.