Escape | |
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Directed by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Screenplay by | Philip Dunne |
Based on | the play Escape by John Galsworthy |
Produced by | William Perlberg |
Starring | Rex Harrison Peggy Cummins William Hartnell |
Cinematography | Freddie Young |
Edited by | Alan L. Jaggs |
Music by | William Alwyn |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom United States |
Language | English |
Escape is a 1948 British-American thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It follows a Royal Air Force World War II veteran (Rex Harrison) who goes to prison and then escapes and meets a woman who persuades him to surrender. The screenplay by Philip Dunne was based on the 1926 play Escape by John Galsworthy, which had previously been filmed in 1930.[1]