Clash by Night | |
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Directed by | Montgomery Tully |
Screenplay by | Montgomery Tully Maurice J. Wilson |
Based on | Clash by Night 1962 novel by Rupert Croft-Cooke |
Produced by | Maurice J. Wilson |
Starring | Terence Longdon Jennifer Jayne Harry Fowler Peter Sallis |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull |
Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
Music by | John Veale |
Production company | Eternal Films |
Distributed by | Grand National Pictures |
Release date | 1963 |
Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
For the 1952 Fritz Lang film of the same name see Clash by Night.
Clash by Night (released in the US as Escape by Night) is a 1963 British crime thriller film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Terence Longdon and Jennifer Jayne. . [1] It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Rupert Croft-Cooke.[ citation needed ]
A bus transporting criminals from court to prison is held up by crooks who rescue one of their gang. The bus is driven to a deserted farm and the other occupants of the bus are locked in a barn. To give the gang leader plenty of time to escape, he tells everone – two prison officers, the driver and five prisoners – that the barn has been doused in petrol, and that two gang members will stay behind outside to guard it, and will set fire to the straw-filled building if anyone tries to escape. The prisoners and officers start to interact, but soon find they may be in danger from yet another source.
Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite the coincidences on which so much of the story depends, this is a fairly entertaining thriller, briskly developed and with well-written dialogue." [2]
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