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Escape from Broadmoor
Directed byJohn Gilling
Produced byHarry Reynolds
StarringJohn Stuart
Victoria Hopper
John Le Mesurier
CinematographyCyril Bristow
Edited byMaurice Rootes
Distributed byGrand National Pictures (British)
Release date
  • December 1948 (1948-12)
Running time
38 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Escape from Broadmoor is a 1948 British short film featuring John Le Mesurier, in one of his earliest screen appearances. He plays Pendicost, a man escaped from an asylum, whom police are hunting down.[1] The title is a reference to Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire. It was the last film appearance of Victoria Hopper who had been a prominent leading lady in the 1930s.

  1. ^ "Escape from Broadmoor". IMDb.

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