No Escape
Brief Description:
When evidence and circumstance in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, both her boyfriend (a police detective) and a struggling songwriter who plays piano in a bar, decide to withhold evidence from the police. Both of them ostensibly act to protect the woman, who believes that she accidentally killed the victim after an attempted assault. But when the songwriter is suspected by the police, the girl can’t take it any more…
(from Wikipedia, edited & added to by me)
Date: 1953
Genre: American crime drama mystery film noir
Running time: 1 hour 16 minutes
Cast:
Lew Ayres (Tracy)
Marjorie Steele (Pat)
Renny McEvoy (Turnip)
Sonny Tufts (Shayne)
Lewis Martin (Gunning)
Gertrude Michael (Olga)
Charles Cane (Grossett)
James Griffith (Hayden)
Director: Charles Bennett
Production company: Matthugh Productions
(watched on Tubi)
Setting/Aesthetic/Feel: 4/5
The ’50s aesthetic/feel was definitely there, with nightclubs, parties, apartments… I just wish the setting involved the pub less. ;P
Characters: 3/5
I really liked Pat because she was kind-hearted and tried hard to be honest and do the right thing, even if she messed up a couple times. I ended up liking T. as he redeemed himself. I never did like S., though. He was too aggressive, even to his girlfriend. Gunning was fun though. And Turnip was an interesting sidekick. (Also, random policeman who spoke to Pat on the bus—super cool guy.)
Plot: 3/5
Suspense? Yes, especially with the manhunt. But I figured out the baddie early on. Partly because of the stupid Tubi synopsis, though—I don’t know if I’d have guessed it was them otherwise. I was not a fan of how the murder came about, with the attempted assault and all the other stuff that happened to compromise Pats reputation.
Romance: 2/5
S + P were kinda cute at first—I mean, I tried hard to ship them. But S just was too aggressive and controlling. T was a lot more gentlemanly—ironically. The relationship was kind of whirlwind and you could see it a mile off, and it just wasn’t my fav.
Theme/Message/Topics: 0/5
No theme, except maybe don’t go home with drunk men~
Content: 1/5 (high)
Drinking, lots of it. Some language, possibly. Portrait of “Sultry Sally” in a rather revealing costume. Kissing which is considered passionate in my book. Off-screen, a guy tries to assault a girl.
Violence: 4/5 (low)
Little to no on-screen violence. Shot of a dead man (eyes open); a few scenes where someone is threatened with a gun; a scene where people are shot—all nongraphic.
Overall: 3/5
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