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Danger Within Directed by Don Chaffey Produced by Colin Lesslie Written by Eric Ambler Starring Richard Todd
Bernard Lee
Michael Wilding
Richard AttenboroughDistributed by British Lion Films Release date(s) 1959 Running time 101 min Country United Kingdom Language English Danger Within is a 1959 British war film set in a prisoner of war camp in northern Italy during the summer of 1943.
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Plot
After a clever escape plan fails, the escape committee, led by Lieutenant Colonel David Baird (Richard Todd) suspects that there is an informer in their ranks. The prime candidate is a Greek officer, Lieutenant Coutoules (Cyril Shaps), but when he is found dead in an escape tunnel, all thoughts of an informer die down. To explain his death to the Italian captors, his body is placed in an abandoned tunnel within the camp and the Italians are informed he was killed by a roof fall.
Sadistic Capitano Benucci (Peter Arne) charges Captain Roger Byfold (Donald Houston) with the murder of the Greek. The escape committee form a plan to get Byfold and two other officers (played by Peter Jones and Michael Wilding) out of the camp before he can be shot. The three scale the camp fence with a ladder constructed from two rugby posts, but Benucci is waiting and shoots them.
The race is then on to find the informer and for the rest of the inmates to escape en masse before the camp is handed over to the Germans as part of the Italian Armistice. The escape plan devised by Lieutenant Colonel Huxley (Bernard Lee) is for the prisoners to make their escape during the day, under cover of a production of Hamlet in the theatre hut by a group of POWs led by Captain Rupert Callender (Dennis Price).
Cast
- Richard Todd as Lieutenant Colonel David Baird
- Bernard Lee as Lieutenant Colonel Huxley
- Michael Wilding as Major Charles Marquand
- Richard Attenborough as Captain 'Bunter' Phillips
- Dennis Price as Captain Rupert Callender
- Donald Houston as Captain Roger Byfold
- William Franklyn as Captain Tony Long
- Vincent Ball as Captain Pat Foster
- Peter Arne as Capitano Benucci
- Peter Jones as Captain Alfred Piker
- Ronnie Stevens as Lieutenant Meynell, 'The Sewer Rat'
- Terence Alexander as Lieutenant Gibbs
- Andrew Faulds as Lieutenant Commander 'Dopey' Gibbon, R.N.
- Steve Norbert as Lieutenant Pierre Dessin
- Cyril Shaps as Lieutenant Cyriakos Coutoules
- Eric Lander as Lieutenant Tim O'Brien
- Harold Siddons as Captain 'Tag' Burchnall
- John Dearth as Lieutenant Robson
- Michael Caine as POW (uncredited)
Filming locations
Filming locations for the movie were Chobham Common, Surrey, and Shepperton Studios.
Notes
The movie was retitled 'Breakout' for the US market.
External links
Films directed by Don Chaffey 1950s Skid Kids (1953) · Time Is My Enemy (1954) · The Secret Tent (1956) · The Girl in the Picture (1957) · The Flesh Is Weak (1957) · A Question of Adultery (1958) · The Man Upstairs (1958) · Danger Within (1959)1960s Dentist in the Chair (1960) · Lies My Father Told Me (1960) · Nearly a Nasty Accident (1961) · A Matter of WHO (1961) · Greyfriars Bobby (1961) · The Webster Boy (1962) · Jason and the Argonauts (1963) · A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964) · The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) · The Crooked Road (1965) · One Million Years B.C. (1966) · The Viking Queen (1967) · A Twist of Sand (1968)1970s Clinic Exclusive (1971) · Creatures the World Forgot (1971) · Charley One-Eye (1973) · Persecution (1974) · Ride a Wild Pony (1975) · The Fourth Wish (1976) · Pete's Dragon (1977) · The Magic of Lassie (1978) · C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)Categories:- English-language films
- Action film stubs
- 1950s drama film stubs
- 1959 films
- Black-and-white films
- British films
- British Lion Films films
- Films directed by Don Chaffey
- Prisoner of war films
- World War II films
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