Escape.

Duration: 78 min.

Genre: thriller

Year Published: 1948

Creator: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins

Description: A melodrama which shows how various people felt toward a former R. A. F. flyer after he escapes from Dartmoor during a heavy fog.

Matt Denant is a former RAF squadron leader. Denant goes to Hendley, England to visit an airfield run by Titch, a friend. While strolling through Hyde Park, a woman is charged with unlawful soliciting by a detective. Matt intervenes on her behalf, but when the two men fight, Penter dies, Matt is placed under arrest. He is then sentenced to three years in prison.

Complete Record: ESCAPE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1948. 78 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the play by John Galsworthy. Summary: A melodrama which shows how various people felt toward a former R. A. F. flyer after he escapes from Dartmoor during a heavy fog. Credits: Producer, William Perlberg; director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz; screenplay, Philip Dunne; music, William Alwyn; music director, Muir Mathieson. Cast: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Norman Wooland, Jill Esmond. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 14Aug48; LP2307.

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