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Escape to Danger is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Lance Comfort released in USA on 14 february 1944 with Eric Portman

Escape to Danger (1943)

Escape to Danger
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Released in USA 14 february 1944
Length 1h24
Directed by
Genres Thriller

Escape to Danger is a 1943 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and Victor Hanbury and starring Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak and Karel Stepanek.

Synopsis

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.

Actors

Eric Portman

(Arthur Lawrence)Ann Dvorak

(Joan Grahame)Karel Štěpánek

(Franz von Brinkman)Ronald Ward

(Rupert Chessman)Ronald Adam

(George Merrick)
And :
Felix Aylmer
Brefni O'Rorke
A. E. Matthews
Ivor Barnard
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