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| William Lucas in BREAKOUT Year: 1959 Rates: *** |
Yet another cautious, severely unpretentious British heist flick where tight calculation and timing are everything, and, directed by Peter Graham Scott... who'd soon make Hammer's splendid NIGHT CREATURES... this is a Post Noir where the characters discuss more than they actually do while their conversations have a page-turning cadence sans the b-movie pulp...
Making BREAKOUT not very fun but there's another slowburn role for underrated English actor William Lucas (THE BREAK) as a cool, classy and crooked businessman... paired with a spectacle-wearing wolf, seducing the gorgeous wife of the man they're hired to BREAKOUT...
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| Billie Whitelaw in BREAKOUT |
And that's CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN good girl Hazel Court as the token bad girl... But the key player, hired for the risk-taking dirty work, is handsome Lee Patterson, a government paper-pusher on an urgent search for the perfect "drive in and pick up" escape truck, and here director Scott wields palpable 11th hour suspense: especially since our anti-hero has the most to lose with adoring, crime-oblivious wife Billie Whitelaw at home. But other than a pint-sized Irish barfly trucker, deliberately jailed for Patterson to take the wheel, it's Hazel Court's ride...
Had this been more than a sixty-minute dialog-driven programmer, she has the femme fatale potential to seduce BOTH partners (Lucas and the sweet-talking Terence Alexander) whose job's to free a husband she doesn't want or care about. Which, on its own, is NOIR defined: but in 1959 it was a year too late.
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Hazel Court in BREAKOUT
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| Lee Patterson in BREAKOUT |
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| Lee Patterson in BREAKOUT |
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Irish scene-stealing Dermot Kelly in BREAKOUT
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| Peter Graham Scott directs BREAKOUT |
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| Dermont Kelly with the prisoner to be freed John Paul in BREAKOUT |
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| Hazel Court being courted in BREAKOUT |
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Hazel Court with William Lucas & Terence Alexander in BREAKOUT
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Lee Patterson and Billie Whitelaw in BREAKOUT
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| Lee Patterson with Terence Alexander and William Lucas in BREAKOUT |
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| Rupert Davies and Ernie Rice set up for Lee Patterson's BREAKOUT plan |
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| Lee Patterson's 11th hour breakout plan in action in BREAKOUT |
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| Hazel Court in BREAKOUT |
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