City on the Hunt (1953)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller, Detective Film  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Also known as City on a Hunt, No Escape stars Lew Ayres and Marjorie Steele as mixed-up victims of circumstance. John Tracy (Ayres), a drunken songwriter, has reason to believe that he's murdered artist Peter Hayden (James Griffith). So does Pat Peterson (Steele), a blue-collar girl whom Hayden had tried to seduce. Both John and Pat take it on the lam, with her boyfriend, police detective Simon Shayne (Sonny Tufts), in hot pursuit. The twist ending isn't much of a surprise, but it's still crammed with suspense. No Escape represents a rare directorial effort by screenwriter Charles Bennett, whose previous scripting credits include several Alfred Hitchcock thrillers.

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law, romance, accusation, apartment, arrest, artist, bar [pub], capture, city, clue, couple, death, detective, escape, false-accusation, friendship, help, homicide, investigation, jealousy, killing, love, murder, music, on-the-road, on-the-run, piano, police, songwriter