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No Escape is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed ... TV Guide gave the film a lukewarm review. The editors wrote, "The plot seems suspenseful but the ...
I Escaped from the Gestapo, a 1943 American drama also known as No Escape; No Escape, a British thriller; No Escape, an American film noir; No Escape, an American science-fiction film; No Escape, an American action thriller film; No Escape, an American horror film; No Escape, a British television series; Quicksand: No Escape, a 1992 American ...
The film is based on a true story. "Albert R.N." was a dummy constructed in Marlag O, the prisoner of war camp in northern Germany for naval officers.The head was sculpted by war artist John Worsley (1919–2000), the body by Lieutenant Bob Staines RNVR, and Lieutenant-Commander Tony Bentley-Buckle devised a mechanism enabling Albert's eyes to blink and move, adding realism to the dummy. [3] "
No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. [1] [2] It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian. [3] [4] The 1994 film The Ascent is based on this book.
The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 American independent [2] film noir thriller co-written and directed by Ida Lupino, and starring Edmond O'Brien, William Talman and Frank Lovejoy. Based on the 1950 killing spree of Billy Cook, the film follows two friends who are taken hostage by a murderous hitchhiker during an automobile trip to Mexico. [3]
Hayward's casting was announced in January 1953. He was originally going to England to make No Escape but that film was actually made in Hollywood. [4] It was Hayward's first film in England since The Lady and the Bandit. [5] In March 1953 as filming was being completed the title was changed from The Saint's Queen to The Saint's Return. [6]
Black Wings Has My Angel is a noir crime novel by American novelist Elliott Chaze, published by Gold Medal Books in 1953. It centers on an escaped convict, Tim Sunblade, and his plot to rob an armored truck in Denver. At the same time, he is wrapped up in a love/hate relationship with Virginia, a call girl he met in Louisiana.
The story begins with a voice-over by the "Voice of Chicago" introducing the world and the main characters of the film. There is Sally "Angel Face" Connors (Mala Powers), an exotic dancer in a nightclub; Gregg Warren (Wally Cassell), a former actor working as a performance artist in the nightclub window, a "Mechanical Man"; Johnny Kelly a cop having an affair with Angel Face and struggling ...