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Escapade
From Angel Productions · Eros Films
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An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
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Directed by Philip Leacock
John Mills
Yvonne Mitchell
Alastair Sim
Jeremy Spenser
Andrew Ray
Peter Asher
Marie Lohr
James DrakeSimilar titles
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CinemaSerfNov 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 qui… Read more
te a clever premiss - do parents who send their kids away to school gain or lose from their respective experiences? Mills isn't up to much, sadly - he over-acts the role, but the boys do well as does their pal "L.W. Hartley" (Jeremy Spenser) and Colin Gordon's meddling journalist "Deeson". I hadn't heard of this until yesterday, but I'm glad I watched it.