A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
Direction
Lance Comfort squeezes maximum dread from hedgerows.
Editing
Lean 72 minutes, not a frame wasted.
Director
Lance Comfort
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed around actual Dartmoor locations, though prison interiors were studio sets at Twickenham.
Part of Britain's 1960s 'kitchen sink' crime wave, where working-class desperation replaced gentleman thieves.
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