Escape from Broadmoor (1948)

Directed by

John Gilling

Genre

horror, drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

38 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A patient breaks out of a high-security psychiatric hospital. Police pursue him across the countryside as he tries to evade capture.

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What happens

Escape from Broadmoor is a 1948 British second feature ('B') short film directed and written by John Gilling and starring Victoria Hopper, John Stuart and John Le Mesurier, in one of his earliest screen appearances. A man escapes from an asylum and is hunted down by police. The title is a reference to Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire. It was the last film appearance of Victoria Hopper who had been a prominent leading lady in the 1930s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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