Breakout (1959 film)

Breakout
Directed by	Peter Graham Scott
Produced by	Leslie Parkyn; Julian Wintle
Written by	Peter Barnes
Based on	the book Breakout by Frederick Oughton[1]
Starring	Lee Patterson; Hazel Court; Terence Alexander; Dermot Kelly
Cinematography	Eric Cross
Edited by	Eric Boyd-Perkins
Production; company	Independent Artists
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK)
Release date	March 1959; (UK)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Breakout is a 1959 British film noir drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Lee Patterson, Hazel Court, Terence Alexander.[2] A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Cast

Lee Patterson as George Munro
Hazel Court as Rita Arkwright
Terence Alexander as Farrow
William Lucas as Chandler
John Paul as Arkwright
Billie Whitelaw as Rose Munro
Dermot Kelly as O'Quinn
Estelle Brody as Maureen O'Quinn
Rupert Davies as Morgan
Lloyd Lamble as Inspector

Locations

Among the locations used in the film was the West End area of Aldershot in Hampshire. The gates of the East Cavalry Barracks on Barrack Road stood in for the prison gates used in the breakout. Other scenes were filmed in Uxbridge - then in Middlesex but now in west London.[3]

Critical reception

Sky Movies noted a "Low-budget, but very tense prison escape thriller, with a suitably tough performance from Canadian-born actor Lee Patterson as the jailbreak expert. The suspense also owes a debt to edgy performances from a number of faces familiar in British films, including Hazel Court, John Paul, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Rupert Davies, Dermot Kelly and Terence Alexander. A gripper."[4]

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References

Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.
"Breakout (1959)". BFI.
"Reelstreets | Breakout". www.reelstreets.com.
"Breakout".

External links

Breakout on IMDb

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[1] Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.

[2] "Breakout (1959)". BFI.

[3] "Reelstreets | Breakout". www.reelstreets.com.

[4] "Breakout".