Escape from Broadmoor | |
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Directed by | John Gilling |
Starring | John Stuart Victoria Hopper John Le Mesurier |
Cinematography | Cyril Bristow |
Distributed by | Grand National Pictures |
Release date(s) | December 1948 |
Running time | 38 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Escape from Broadmoor is a 1948 British short film starring John Le Mesurier, in one of his earliest screen appearances. He plays Pendicot, a man escaped from an asylum, who police are hunting down.[1] 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.
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