Breakout (1959)
Directed by Don Chaffey / Peter Graham Scott
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
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.
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concentration-camp, war, agent [representative], architecture, behind-enemy-lines, Britain, camp, captive, captor, carnival, clue, criminal, danger, dare, enemy, escape, help, Italy, MIA (Missing in Action), plans, prison, secrets, security-guard, soldier, syndicate, tension, treason, troops
