Escape from Broadmoor
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| Directed by | John Gilling |
| Screenplay 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 (British) |
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Running time | 38 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Escape from Broadmoor is a 1948 British second feature ('B')[1] 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.[2] 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[citation needed].
An insane killer escapes from Broadmoor Hospital, and returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, where the ghost of a servant girl he killed is bent on revenge.
Cast
- Victoria Hopper as Susan
- John Stuart as Inspector Thornton
- John Le Mesurier as Langford/Pendicost
- Frank Hawkins as Roger Trent
- Antony Doonan as Jenkins
- T. Gilly Fenwick as Standing
- Blanche Fothergil as Mrs Midge
- William Douglas
- A. Sawford-Dye
- Elizabeth Howarth
- Pat Ryan