Escape by Night (1953 film)

Escape By Night
Simone Silva in screen
Directed by	John Gilling
Produced by	Robert S. Baker Monty Berman
Written by	John Gilling
Starring	Bonar Colleano Sid James Andrew Ray Ted Ray Simone Silva
Music by	Stanley Black
Cinematography	Monty Berman
Edited by	Gerald Landau
Production company	Southall Studios
Distributed by	Eros Films
Release dates	December 1953
Running time	79 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Escape by Night is a 1953 British crime film directed and written by John Gilling.

Plot

Tom Buchan (Colleano) is an alcoholic journalist whose once memorable work has been destroyed by his constant drunken antics that have cost him his future. Buchan boasts to his colleagues that they report news, whilst he makes it. He sees a chance for redemption by getting the life story of Gino Rossi (James), an Italian crime boss on the run. He wins Rossi's confidence by tipping him off to the police coming to arrest them (after Buchnan himself tipped off the police).

The highly suspicious Rossi promises Buchnan the rights to his life story as they hide out in an abandoned theatre in return for Buchnan, a former pilot, flying him to Italy. Through his nightclub singer girlfriend Rosetta, Rossi becomes suspicious that his brother Guillio plans to take over his gang. They are discovered by a young boy playing games by himself in the theatre with Buchan telling the boy they are Secret Service Agents and enlist the child as a junior secret agent to bring them food, supplies and deliver Buchnan's stories to his editor and messages to Rosetta.

Due to Buchan's disappearance his editor places a £500 reward in the media for news of the two men.

Cast

Bonar Colleano .....Tom Buchan
Andrew Ray .....Joey Weston
Sid James .....Gino Rossi
Ted Ray .....Mr. Weston
Simone Silva .....Rosetta Mantania
Patrick Barr .....Inspector Frampton
Peter Sinclair .....MacNaughton
Avice Landone .....Mrs. Weston
Ronald Adam .....Tallboy
Eric Berry .....Con Blair
Martin Benson .....Guillio

References

External links

Escape by Night at the Internet Movie Database
Escape By Night at AllMovie

Films directed by John Gilling

Escape from Broadmoor (1948)
A Matter of Murder (1949)
No Trace (1950)
The Quiet Woman (1951)
The Frightened Man (1952)
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
The Voice of Merrill (1952)
Deadly Nightshade (1953)
Recoil (1953)
Escape by Night (1953)
Three Steps to the Gallows (1953)
Destination Milan (1954) (Compilation of three episodes of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents television series)
Double Exposure (1954)
The Embezzler (1954)
The Gilded Cage (1955)
Tiger by the Tail (1955)
Odongo (1956)
The Gamma People (1956)
Interpol (1957)
High Flight (1957)
The Man Inside (1958)
Idol on Parade (1959)
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
The Challenge (1960)
Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Panic (1963)
The Scarlet Blade (1964 )
The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
The Night Caller (1965)
Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
The Reptile (1966)
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
La cruz del diablo (1975)

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