Port of Escape

The cast acts well in this bleak home invasion drama (vividly photographed as usual by Phil Grindrod) set in a houseboat on the Thames that captures the quiet desperation of life at the bottom of the heap during the fifties; with war veterans John McCallum and Bill Kerr rather resembling such mis-matched male couples as George & Lennie from 'Of Mice and Men' or Alan Ladd and William Bendix in 'The Blue Dahlia'.

Both later returned back down under (McCallum taking leading lady Google Withers with him), while further down the cast list Joan Hickson and Hugh Pryse (who died before the film was released) make notable impressions in the little screen time allotted them.