Develiker
terrible... so disappointed.
SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
Claire Dunne
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
hwg1957-102-265704
Three men on the run after a botched robbery that ended with a man being shot take refuge in a farm, being taken in by a kindly farmer who needs help with his smallholding. The men are leader Eddie Steele who is a tough and hardened criminal, Sinclair who is a poetry quoting felon unwillingly going along with Eddie and weedy Bill Grant who inevitably falls in love with the father's daughter. After the gang's guilt is discovered the film climaxes quite violently in a London gangster's house.A low budget film that just about keeps one's attention. The acting is rather bland and so are the settings. For me Jane Arden as Jane the farmer's daughter stood out in the cast. The film had promise but didn't rise above the routine. Also acting in it is Manville Tarrant which I only mention because it is such an actor-ly name.
Leofwine_draca
A GUNMAN HAS ESCAPED is a low budget British crime thriller released in the postwar years. The darker-than-dark subject matter may have been offputting to the jaded, war weary audiences of the time, although it's held up well for modern viewers. There are no familiar faces in the cast here, making this something of a real obscurity.The storyline is a simple one about a trio of crooks hiding out at a farmhouse. They're already the subject of a manhunt by police thanks to their murdering of a passer-by during the robbery, but the intervention of family members at the farm leads to the group falling out, somewhat inevitably. The storyline is completely predictable, but the script keeps you focused on the action, and I notice that future director John Gilling had a hand in it. The ending is fun.
malcolmgsw
This film seems to have been made on an ultra low budget. The story concerns a gang of robbers,where the leader shoots and kills a passer who tried to intervene. When they return to their hideout the leader decides that all 3 of them must do a runner.They go out into the countryside and hijack a van.They find a farm where they get work and one of the gang falls for the farmers daughter.However locals become suspicious and they have to flee.However one of the robbers wants to go back to London,and he is shot by the leader.He and the other gang member go back to London.At their hideout a lot of shooting takes place and the police finally arrive when the dust has settled.All rather second rate
GUENOT PHILIPPE
OK, I agree it will remain a totally unknown feature, even in UK. The copy I watched probably came from a private collection, or a bootlegged 16mm duplicate, I can't tell, and I don't care. I got it. Period. The late forties British films, I don't know much, but this one, even with unknown actors and director - but not screenwriter, the great John Gilling himself - is really worth watching. At the beginning, during the first thirty minutes, it may seem talkative, but the last part is rather tough, rough, brutal, not foreseeable at all. The story of a batch of gangsters on the run after a killing, a heist. And also a sharp, abrupt ending. No more to tell about this little gem, which is not a masterpiece, and that many among you would forget one day after seeing it, but it deserves to be discovered.
