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Escape by Night is a British film of genre Drama directed by John Gilling with Bonar Colleano
Escape by Night (1953)
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Add to a movie listEscape by Night is a 1953 British crime film directed and written by John Gilling.
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Tom Buchan (Colleano) is an alcoholic journalist whose once memorable work has been destroyed by his constant drunken antics that have cost him his future. Buchan boasts to his colleagues that they report news, whilst he makes it. He sees a chance for redemption by getting the life story of Gino Rossi (James), an Italian crime boss on the run. He wins Rossi's confidence by tipping him off to the police coming to arrest them (after Buchnan himself tipped off the police).Actors
Bonar Colleano
(Tom Buchan)
Patrick Barr
(Inspector Frampton)
Sid James
(Gino Rossini)
Avice Landone
Andrew Ray
(Joey Weston)
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