''Escape Dangerous'' is a 1947 British second feature ('B')

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Digby Smith and starring

Beresford Egan Beresford Egan (1905–1984) was a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, costume designer and playwright. He was born in London but grew up in South Africa following a family move when he was five years old. He returned to London in J ...

and

Marianne Stone Marianne Stone (23 August 1922 – 21 December 2009) was an English character actress. She performed in films from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, typically playing working class parts such as barmaids, secretaries and landladies. Stone app ...

. It was written by

Oswell Blakeston Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher (1907–1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory. He was also a poet and wrote in non- ...

(pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher).

Cast

as Dr. Belhomme *

as Jacqueline Fabre * Lily Lapidus as Mme. Angeline * Daphne Day as Blanche de Vigny * Peter Noble as Michel Fournier *

Humberston Wright Humberston Wright (27 September 1876 – 1953), sometimes credited as Humberstone Wright or Humberston H. Wright, was a British film actor. Filmography * '' Trapped by the London Sharks'' (1916) * '' Thelma'' (1918) * '' The Secret Woman'' ...

as Aristide Fabre * Ethel Edwards as Countess de Fournier *

Charles Paton Charles Ernest Paton (31 July 1874 – 10 April 1970) was an English film actor. He joined the circus at 14, and had early stage and music hall experience. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1927 and 1952, including ''Freedom of the ...

as night porter * Jack Faint as first tribunal judge *

Cyril Conway Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name (''Kýrillos''), meaning 'lordly, masterful', which in turn derives from Greek (''kýrios'') 'lord'. There are various variant forms of the name ''Cyril' ...

as Paul Bonnet * Beth Ross as Marie

Reception

Kine Weekly ''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971. Etymology The word Kinematograph was derived from the Greek ' Kinumai ', (to move, to be in motion, to ...

'' wrote: "Crude, dishevelled costume piece ... hard to follow without the aid of a synopsis, let alone without, it has little to recommend it." In ''British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959'' David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Cardboard historical drama." Writing in ''The British 'B' Film'', Chibnall and MacFarlane said: "The picture was ambitious in its French Revolutionary setting and its depiction of guillotine and tumbrel, but stolid in all other respects."

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*{{IMDb title, 0176699 1947 films British drama films 1947 drama films British black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s British films