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‘He ran away from life… from the past… from love! Until he met a girl who gave him courage to face fate.’ German-born director William Dieterle [Wilhelm Dieterle]’s 1933 The Devil’s in Love stars Victor […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1944 The Seventh Cross in an engrossing, intelligent, studio-bound escape adventure, with the excellent actors fleshing out intriguing characters. Spencer Tracy is at his best as George Heisler, one of seven […]
The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]
Director James Clavell’s 1969 film Where’s Jack? provides a serious role for Tommy Steele (fresh from success in Half a Sixpence and Finian’s Rainbow) as Jack Sheppard, the celebrated notorious 18th-century British highwayman wanted by the […]
Raymond Cordy and Henri Marchand star in writer-director René Clair’s dazzlingly witty 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté [Freedom for Us], in which Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes from jail and works his way up […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 Albert RN [Break to Freedom] is a deservedly famous British Fifties World War Two prisoner-of-war camp movie, with notable stiff-upper-lipped acting, in which the true Brits, fed up with escapes that […]
Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]