Escape Dangerous
Appearance
Escape Dangerous | |
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Directed by | Digby Smith |
Written by | Oswell Blakeston |
Produced by |
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Starring | Beresford Egan Marianne Stone |
Cinematography | Stanley Clinton |
Edited by | Joseph Levine |
Music by | Joseph Levine |
Production company | DS Films |
Distributed by | H & S Film Services |
Release date |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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
[edit]- Beresford Egan as Dr. Belhomme
- Marianne Stone as Jacqueline Fabre
- Lily Lapidus as Mme. Angeline
- Daphne Day as Blanche de Vigny
- Peter Noble as Michel Fournier
- Humberston Wright as Aristide Fabre
- Ethel Edwards as Countess de Fournier
- Charles Paton as night porter
- Jack Faint as first tribunal judge
- Cyril Conway as Paul Bonnet
- Beth Ross as Marie
Reception
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
- ^ "Escape Dangerous". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Escape Dangerous". Kine Weekly. 395 (2230): 22. 26 January 1950 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 206. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5.