Nowhere to Go (1958)

Directed by

Seth Holt

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A career criminal escapes from prison but finds himself abandoned by his former allies and pursued relentlessly by the law. He struggles to recover the hidden money while dodging both the police and the underworld.

tensebleaklonelysuspensefuldarknoirishdesperatecold

What happens

Nowhere to Go is a 1958 British crime film directed by Seth Holt in his directorial debut. It stars George Nader, Maggie Smith (receiving her first screen credit), Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Bessie Love. It was written by Kenneth Tynan and Holt, based on the 1956 novel of the same title by Donald MacKenzie. A criminal escapes from jail and attempts to recover his stashed loot but is shunned by the criminal community and hunted by the police. Holt called Nowhere to Go "the least Ealing film ever made." Michael Balcon, head of Ealing, later said the film "went wrong in treatment. A bit pretentious. But was it worth doing? Of course! It gave a young director, Seth Holt, his first chance: that's always on the credit side." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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