Escape Dangerous

Escape Dangerous
Opening titles
Directed by	Digby Smith
Written by	Oswell Blakeston
Produced by	John Denny Beresford Egan Digby Smith
Starring	Beresford Egan Marianne Stone
Cinematography	Stanley Clinton
Edited by	Joseph Levine
Music by	Joseph Levine
Production company	DS Films
Distributed by	H & S Film Services
Release date	December 1947 (1947-12)
Running time	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

• Beresford Egan as Dr. Belhomme
• Marianne Stone as Jacqueline Fabre
• Lily Lapidus as Mme. Angeline
• Daphne Day as Blanche de Vigny
• Peter Noble as Michel Fournier
• Humberston Wright as Aristide Fabre
• Ethel Edwards as Countess de Fournier
• Charles Paton as night porter
• Jack Faint as first tribunal judge
• Cyril Conway as Paul Bonnet
• Beth Ross as Marie

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." ^[1]

References

1. Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 34. ISBN   978-1-8445-7319-6.
2. "Escape Dangerous". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
3. Klossner, Michael (2002). The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company. p. 128. ISBN   978-0786477517.
4. "Escape Dangerous" . Kine Weekly . 395 (2230): 22. 26 January 1950. ProQuest   2732600367.
5. Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p. 206. ISBN   0-7134-1874-5.

External links

• Escape Dangerous at IMDb