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Escapade( 1955)

TV-MAComedyDrama
52%
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Overview

An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

    Top Billed Cast

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      John Mills

      John Hampden

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      Yvonne Mitchell

      Mrs. Stella Hampden

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      Alastair Sim

      Dr. Skillingworth

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      Jeremy Spenser

      L. W. Daventry

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      Andrew Ray

      Max Hampden

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      Peter Asher

      Johnny Hampden

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      Marie Lohr

      Grandmother

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      Sonia Williams

      Miss Betts

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      James Drake

      Kirkland

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Nov 14 2022
    This 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? Mills...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • cold war