Breakout (1959)
In 1943, an Italian-administered POW camp for captured Allies embark on a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
- Date of release
- 1959-03-01
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Peter Graham Scott
Casting
- Lee Patterson — George Munro
- Hazel Court — Rita Arkwright
- Terence Alexander — Farrow
- William Lucas — Chandler
- John Paul — Arkwright
- Billie Whitelaw — Rose Munro
- Dermot Kelly — O'Quinn
- Estelle Brody — Maureen O'Quinn
- Rupert Davies — Morgan
- Lloyd Lamble — Inspector
Interesting facts
Breakout is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Lee Patterson, Hazel Court and Terence Alexander. It was written by Peter Barnes based on the 1959 novel Breakout by Frederick Oughton.
Production
The film was shot at Beaconsfield Studios. Location shooting took place in 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.
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