Breakaway | |
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Directed by | Henry Cass |
Written by | Norman Hudis |
Based on | an original story by Manning O'Brine |
Produced by | Robert S. Baker Monty Berman |
Starring | Tom Conway Michael Balfour Honor Blackman Brian Worth |
Cinematography | Monty Berman |
Edited by | Anne Barker |
Music by | Stanley Black Ivor Slaney |
Production company | Cipa |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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In a contemporary review, Today's Cinema called the film "slickly manufactured crime entertainment"; [3] while more recently, TV Guide called it an "absurd whodunit". [4]
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