Breakout (1959 film)

Breakout
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)
Release date	March 1959 (1959-03) (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]

References[]

External links[]

• Breakout at IMDb

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