The Break (1962)

The Break (1962). The Break: Directed by Lance Comfort. With Tony Britton, William Lucas, Eddie Byrne, Robert Urquhart. A dangerous prisoner, Jacko Thomas, overpowers his police guard and jumps from a speeding train in the Dartmoor countryside. In the ensuing fight Jacko kills the guard and makes his way to a secluded hotel on the moors where Tredgar is being paid to arrange a safe transit for Jacko and his sister Jean. But Jean as no idea of Jacko's murderous character, and when an ex-policeman and a famous novelist book into the isolated hotel, the scene is set for a series of murders and a shocking climax.

“Two years after playing the u0026quot;waif-in-perilu0026quot; in the title role of u0026#39;Rag Dollu0026#39;, big-haired, button-eyed Christina Gregg – her fur collar pulled up against the cold – was still on the run under the guidance of director Lance Comfort in this raw, hard-edged retread of u0026#39;The Petrified Forestu0026#39; with William Lucas in the Bogart role and Tony Britton as Leslie Howard (set like the aftermath of the following summeru0026#39;s Great Train Robbery in a deserted farm).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eCameraman Basil Emmott does a magnificent job both of the night-for-night scenes and the wintry daytime location work shot on Woking Common. And the final shot is a beaut!”