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Port of Escape

  • 1956
  • 1h 16min
NOTE IMDb
5,4/10
155
MA NOTE
Port of Escape (1956)
CrimeDrama

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueTwo sailors visiting London get embroiled in a bar fight, resulting in a man's death. They hijack a boat with three women aboard and embark on a desperate maritime escape from authorities wh... Tout lireTwo sailors visiting London get embroiled in a bar fight, resulting in a man's death. They hijack a boat with three women aboard and embark on a desperate maritime escape from authorities while holding the women hostage.Two sailors visiting London get embroiled in a bar fight, resulting in a man's death. They hijack a boat with three women aboard and embark on a desperate maritime escape from authorities while holding the women hostage.

  • Réalisation
    • Anthony Young
  • Scénario
    • Barbara S. Harper
    • Anthony Young
    • Abby Mann
  • Casting principal
    • Googie Withers
    • John McCallum
    • Bill Kerr
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    5,4/10
    155
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Anthony Young
    • Scénario
      • Barbara S. Harper
      • Anthony Young
      • Abby Mann
    • Casting principal
      • Googie Withers
      • John McCallum
      • Bill Kerr
    • 9avis d'utilisateurs
    • 1avis de critique
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux24

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    Googie Withers
    Googie Withers
    • Anne Stirling
    John McCallum
    John McCallum
    • Mitch Gillis
    Bill Kerr
    Bill Kerr
    • Dinty Missouri
    Joan Hickson
    Joan Hickson
    • Rosalie Watchett
    Wendy Danielli
    • Daphne Stirling
    Hugh Pryse
    • Skinner
    Alexander Gauge
    Alexander Gauge
    • Inspector Levins
    Ewan Roberts
    Ewan Roberts
    • Sgt. Rutherford
    Gerald Andersen
    • Det. Sgt. Shafto
    • (as Gerald Anderson)
    Basil Dignam
    Basil Dignam
    • Det. Sgt. Crawford
    Ingeborg von Kusserow
    Ingeborg von Kusserow
    • Lucy
    • (as Ingeborg Wells)
    Cameron Hall
    • Bates
    Doug Robinson
    Doug Robinson
    • Field
    • (as Douglas Robinson)
    Jack Lester
    • Ship's Mate
    George Rose
    George Rose
    • Publican
    Robert Bruce
    Robert Bruce
    • Policeman
    Norman Pierce
    Norman Pierce
    • Policeman
    • (as Norman Pearce)
    Leonard Llewellyn
    • Policeman
    • (as Len Llewelyn)
    • Réalisation
      • Anthony Young
    • Scénario
      • Barbara S. Harper
      • Anthony Young
      • Abby Mann
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    5Leofwine_draca

    Hostage suspense drama that never really grips

    PORT OF ESCAPE is a hostage drama that never really feels very suspenseful despite best efforts; it's far too sedate and genteel for that. It's a pity that the film isn't more gripping because the trappings of the genre are present and correct, it's just the execution which is a bit, well average. The storyline is about a couple of sailors on shore leave who get into a fight which leaves a man dead. Instead of giving themselves up they decide to hide out on a moored boat which just so happens to be occupied by three women, one of whom witnessed the crime. The rest of the film sees them trying to avoid the police investigations, headed over by genre regular Alexander Gauge.

    The film has a mixed cast although most of the characters are underwritten so few have a chance to shine. John McCallum, an Australian star who later went on to produce the famous SKIPPY TV series, is the best of the bunch as the warm and conflicted killer, while Bill Keer is underutilised but quite effective as the psychotic one of the pair. Googie Withers is saddled with an annoying character who I never warmed to, although it's fun to see Joan Hickson in a much larger role than usual. My favourite character was Skinner, played by the delightful Hugh Pryse as a man who uses opportunity to make cash from the situation. If only the film was as fun as his character.
    6richardchatten

    Desperate Hours

    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.
    4mark-erswell

    A run of the mill British crime movie

    A typical British B movie from the 1950's. Has two Australian actors playing Americans. Now that is really scraping the bottom of the barrel to try and earn a few extra dollars on the US circuit. I wonder if it worked? Actually this film has a very strong cast with some fine actors. It is just very claustrophobic with it's settings. It plods along but does not really grip you. Worth watching though for those who like to play spot the actor. Some interesting shots of how The Port of London once looked when the Thames was a working river and before the modern developers completely changed the landscape of the area. Lots of trilby hats and long raincoats on show in typical 1950's British black and white movie fashion.
    kmoh-1

    It's not very good

    There are some good actors in this, and the setting is interesting, especially for those of us who know the East of London nowadays. Joan Hickson puts in a great cameo, and Bill Kerr is convincingly twitchy. However, this really is not a very good film.

    Apart from the lack of tension, the very predictable playing out of the plot to its obvious ending, and the various very illogical decisions that practically every character makes, two particular problems stand out.

    The most important is the not very impressive insight into female psychology. Would Googie fall in love with McCallum on the spot, just like that? Can Stockholm syndrome really set in after a couple of hours? Particularly as McCallum's character is pretty charmless, even as he thumps home his message that he is sacrificing all to get Bill Kerr back to Michigan.

    And secondly, this is supposed to be a houseboat, yet appears to be the size of a decent suburban villa in Metroland. And furnished in more or less the same fashion. Three cabins and a spare one in case hostage-takers drop in. A giant living room containing the only grand piano ever on a Thames houseboat. And a galley that could host a cookery programme, complete with camera crew and audience. All with 15 foot high ceilings. This isn't a houseboat, it's a superyacht.
    4saracen238

    Some People Don't Watch Carefully

    I haven't actually written a review on here for ages, and I'm not that fussed about writing one for this movie, it was passable and enjoyable enough.

    What I REALLY want to do is say that, whoever wrote the heading review, and the featured review, clearly DIDN'T watch the movie properly. McCallum's and Kerr's characters are NOT "...two sailors out....in search of a good time...", nor are they BOTH supposed to be American. It's stated quite clearly; almost from the opening scenes; that they're trying to find a ship to get Kerr's character back to the U. S. And McCallum quite clearly says; as does Kerr's character; that he is Australian. Lazy, lazy "reviewing" gets up my nose!

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    • Anecdotes
      Last film of Hugh Pryse who died several months before the film's release.
    • Gaffes
      When Mitch first plays the piano on the houseboat, the music sometimes carries on even when he has stopped hitting the keys.
    • Citations

      Inspector Levins: [musing over interview responses] Doesn't that seem strange to you Sergeant ?

      Sgt. Rutherford: What's that sir ?

      Inspector Levins: That those three women miss being that close

      [clicking his fingers]

      Inspector Levins: being witnesses to a murder, and not mentioned it.

      Sgt. Rutherford: I see, yes.

      Inspector Levins: Not one of them spoke about it. Not to each other, Skinner, or us. Doesn't that seem strange ? Almost as if they had something binding their silence.

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • mai 1956 (Royaume-Uni)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Lieux de tournage
      • National Studios, Elstree, Hertfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(studio: made at National Studios, Elstree, England.)
    • Société de production
      • Wellington
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    • Durée
      1 heure 16 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White

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