John Cummings, an unsuccessful cosmetics salesman, has his unpaid-for car stolen by one of the hoods in the employ of Lionel Meadows, the sadistic organizer of a London car conversion racket.
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees.
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts.
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare.
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Escape (1948)
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Escape From Fort Bravo - Trailer
Turner-made western set in 1860's Arizona. Starring Eleanor Parker and Bill Holden. The war between the North and the South has some unexpected effects on ...
Escape - Original Theatrical Trailer
"This place isn't a country. It's a Coney Island madhouse!" In 1936 Mark Preysing (Robert Taylor) comes to Germany in search of his mother a famed actress ...
Escape from Zahrain (1962) by Jack Openshaw for 90to5
Enjoy this edit of Escape from Zahrain (1962) by Jack Openshaw () for the 90to5 Editing Challenge.
THE LAST ESCAPE(1969) Original Theatrical Trailer
Stuart Whitman stars in this often overlooked but very enjoyable World War Two story about a special Allied unit who must infiltrate a Nazi missile base and ...
Escape By Night 1937 Action Adventure Crime
A group of criminals on the run hide out in an abandoned farmhouse. They find themselves being "looked after" by a friendly dog and soon afterwards they meet ...
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A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
This post-World War II drama, (released to a world-wide audience on July 9, 1949), is definitively unique for the caliber of each of its contributing writers, who are clearly better-known for their cinematic talents in black and white .
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny.
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson.
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.