Breakout (1959)
- Starring:
- Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, (more)
- Director(s):
- Peter Graham Scott, Don Chaffey, (more
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Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the various prisoners. Richard Todd is Lt. Col. David Baird, intensely and single-mindedly set on escaping. Bernard Lee is Lt. Col. Huxley who is the careful senior British officer with a view of the entire situation. Michael Wilding plays the deceptively dashing Major Charles Marquand, and some comic relief is provided by Dennis Price, an actor-prisoner more devoted to his production of Hamlet than leaving before the curtain goes up. The hitch in the plans to escape is insidious -- there is a traitor among the prisoners and before they can succeed, they have to find him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Richard Todd - Lt. Col. David Baird
- Michael Wilding, Sr. - Maj. Charles Marquand
- Dennis Price - Capt. Rupert Callender
- William Franklyn - Capt. Tony Long
- Peter Arne - Capitano Benucci
- Michael Caine
- Ronnie Stevens
- Hazel Court
- Bernard Lee - Lt. Col Huxley
- Richard Attenborough - Capt. Bunter Phillips
- Donald Houston - Capt. Roger Byford
- Vincent Ball - Capt. Pat Foster
- Billie Whitelaw
- Lee Patterson
- John Paul
- Terry Alexander
- Director(s):
- Peter Graham Scott, Don Chaffey
- Writer(s):
- Frank Harvey Jr., Michael A. Gilbert, Bryan Forbes
- Producer(s):
- Colin Lesslie
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