Saturday | July 30, 2011 9:30 pm

Escape

Screening on Film

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
With Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell.
UK/US, 1948, 35mm, black & white, 78 min.
Print source: British Film Institute

Rex Harrison stars in this dramatic chase film as a former RAF squadron leader on the run after accidently killing a police detective while defending a woman's honor. Based on a popular John Galsworthy novel, Escape punctuates its chase with introspective and philosophical musings between the fugitive and the strangers he encounters. A favorite of Rex Harrison's, Escape was the first post-WWII American production shot in Britain under a special tax-incentive law designed to revitalize the faltering British film industry. – HG