Breakout

1959

Action / Drama / War

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56%
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 821 821

prisoner of war black and white

Plot summary

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Director

Don Chaffey Photo
Don Chaffey

Top cast

Michael Caine Photo
Michael Caine as Prisoner with Pin-Up
Dennis Price Photo
Dennis Price as Capt. Rupert Callender
David Graham Photo
David Graham as Lt. Moxhay
Eric Lander Photo
Eric Lander as Lt. Tim O'Brien
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932.54 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 41 min
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1.69 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 41 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by john2win 8 / 10

Excellent POW Drama

Although similar but not as good as Stalag 17, this is one of the best British POW movies. The script is fast paced, the cast is excellent, the acting is top draw , without hamming it up. And like Stalag 17 there is a traitor in the camp. The film blends drama with a good whodunit, and throw in the Camp's production of Hamlet as a ploy to enable a mass escape is an absolute joy. Dennis Price, Bernard Lee,Richard Todd, Peter Arne and a who's who of British actor's make this such an enjoyable film. Richard Attenborough's performance as always is superb. I rate this film and recommend it to anyone who enjoys War-Drama movies. Danger Within is being shown on Channel Four on Tuesday afternoon 12th of July, please watch it, if i had a VCR i would record it!. This film deserves a quality DVD release in it's original aspect ratio, so whoever own's the rights please do something about it.
Reviewed by raypdaley182 7 / 10

Stands above the rest

It gets the high score it deserves for daring to be different in so many ways.Yes, its a POW film. Yes, their trying to escape.So why is it so different?Their jailers are the Italians who we so rarely see in POW films. We have a murder mystery, a Who Done It to solve! We also have a spy in the camp revealing the escape plans to the Italians.It's a pretty good name cast with Richard Todd, Richard Attenborough and William Franklyn as the more notable names.The film looks good, it's well scripted and you have an excellent bad guy in Benucci, the Italian Camp Commander.The great storyline that they find the man they think is the spy dead in a tunnel which totally throws them off starts the who done it. It also stops them thinking about spies until they do reveal who the actual traitor is (I won't spoil that for you).The ending after the escape is a tad weak, I would have liked to have watched more of their escape once they were outside the camp.Overall its a very decent movie for its age. Thumbs up and recommended to those who like their War or POW films.
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