Breakout is a 1959 British crime 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.
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Directed by | Peter Graham Scott |
Written by | Peter Barnes |
Based on | the book Breakout by Frederick Oughton[1] |
Produced by | Leslie Parkyn Julian Wintle |
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) |
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Running time | 62 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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 Greater London.[3]
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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