ESCAPADE, 1955

ESCAPADE
1955

The film was based on a long-running West End play by Roger MacDougall.

PLOT:
A pacifist husband is so involved in his "causes" that he totally neglects his wife and two sons. The wife, ready to leave her husband, finds the schoolmaster knocking on their door informing them their boys are going to be expelled for fighting, which he finds ironic as the father is a known pacifist. Fearing a divorce, their sons have 
concocted a plan to bring their family closer together. When the parents get to the school their sons have disappeared...

CAST
John Mills ... John Hampden
Yvonne Mitchell ... Mrs. Stella Hampden
Alastair Sim ... Dr. Skillingworth
Jeremy Spenser ... L. W. Daventry
Andrew Ray ... Max Hampden
Marie Lohr    Marie Lohr ... Mrs. Hampden - Senior
Colin Gordon ... Deeson, Reporter
Nicky Edmett ... Paton 
Peter Asher ... Johnny Hampden
Christopher Ridley ... Potter
Sean Barrett ... Warren
Colin Freear ... Richard 'Young Skilly' Skillingworth
Kit Terrington ... Smith
Mark Dignam ... Sykes
James Drake ... Kirkland

Director: Cy Endfield

RUNNING TIME: 87 MIN
 

Tags: John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Alastair Sim