Escape!

Escape!

70 mins | Drama, Crime | April 5, 1930

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law. The first film produced by Associated Talking Pictures, which would eventually evolve into Ealing Studios.

Escape!

70 mins | Drama, Crime | April 5, 1930

Escape!
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law. The first film produced by Associated Talking Pictures, which would eventually evolve into Ealing Studios.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Associated Talking Pictures (ATP)
Original title Escape!
Directors John Burch, Basil Dean
Writers Basil Dean, John Galsworthy

Cast

Gerald du Maurier

as Captain Matt Denant

Mabel Poulton

as The Girl in Hyde Park

Ian Hunter

as William Brown, the Plainclothesman

Gordon Harker

as Convict 272

Edna Best

as The Gentlewoman In Bed

Horace Hodges

as The Gentleman at Stream-side

Lewis Casson

as Landowner Browning

Marie Ney

as Grace, Dora's sister

Austin Trevor

as The Vicar

Felix Aylmer

as The Prison Governor

Jean Cadell

as The Picnic Woman

Phyllis Konstam

as The Woman Hiker

Ann Casson

as Betty, the Autograph Hound

Nigel Bruce

as Constable at Vicarage