Escape from Broadmoor | |
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Directed by | John Gilling |
Produced by | Harry Reynolds |
Starring |
John Stuart Victoria Hopper John Le Mesurier |
Cinematography | Cyril Bristow |
Edited by | Maurice Rootes |
Distributed by | Grand National Pictures |
Release date
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December 1948 |
Running time
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38 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Escape from Broadmoor is a 1948 British short film featuring John Le Mesurier, in one of his earliest screen appearances. He plays Pendicost, a man escaped from an asylum, who police are hunting down. 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.
An insane killer escapes from Broadmoor Hospital, and returns to the scene of a decade old crime, where the ghost of a servant girl he killed is bent on revenge.