Escape! (film)

Escape!
Directed byBasil Dean
Screenplay byBasil Dean
Based onEscape by John Galsworthy
Produced byBasil Dean
StarringGerald du Maurier
Edna Best
Gordon Harker
Madeleine Carroll
CinematographyJack MacKenzie
Edited byJack Kitchin
Music byErnest Irving
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Pictures
Release dates
  • 28 August 1930 (1930-08-28) (London [press screening], UK)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£40,000 or $200,000[1]
Box office$550,000[1]

Escape! is a 1930 British crime film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best and Gordon Harker.[2] It was based on the 1926 play of the same title by John Galsworthy, which was adapted again as a film in 1948.[3]

  1. ^ a b "English Making Money". Variety. 17 September 1930. p. 57.
  2. ^ "Escape! (1930) - Basil Dean - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943 – via Google Books.