Escape Dangerous Explained

Escape Dangerous
Director:Digby Smith
Starring:Beresford Egan
Marianne Stone
Music:Joseph Levine
Cinematography:Stanley Clinton
Editing:Joseph Levine
Studio:DS Films
Distributor:H & S Film Services
Runtime: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

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.".

References

  1. Book: Chibnall, Steve . The British 'B' Film . McFarlane . Brian . . 2009 . 978-1-8445-7319-6 . London . 34.
  2. Web site: Escape Dangerous . 30 November 2024 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  3. Book: Klossner, Michael . The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000 . . 2002 . 978-0786477517 . 128.
  4. 26 January 1950 . Escape Dangerous . . 395 . 2230 . 22 . subscription . ProQuest.
  5. Book: Quinlan, David . British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 . . 1984 . 0-7134-1874-5 . London . 206.