5.2
Escapade (1955)
August 5, 19551h 27mEN
5.2
8 votes
Overview
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
Director
Philip LeacockWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Angel ProductionsEros Films
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6.0This is quite a fun little gem stolen, as usual, by Alastair Sim as the headmaster "Dr. Skillingworth". This time, though, he is not in his "St. Trinians" guise - here he has to manage three typically mischievous brothers who have a grand design. That plan is not so much anti-education, but aimed at their ever rowing parents: pacifist John Mills and the kindly, but at the end of her tether Yvonne Mitchell whose marriage appears to be teetering on the edge of divorce. It's quite a clever premiss - do parents who send their kids away to school gain or lose from their respective experiences? Mill…
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