Today’s movie is a prison drama with a scene that happens on August 24, Watch it tonight and enjoy.
A MAN ESCAPED
Fontaine, a member of the French resistance is arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in a solitary cell in Lyon. He makes contact with another prisoner Terry and through him gets a safety pin which he uses to pick the lock on his handcuffs. He notices that the joins between the oak boards in the door to his cell are made up of a softer wood. He sharpens a spoon into a chisel and pries the soft wood out enabling him to remove the boards and leave his cell. His pal Orsini tries to escape and is caught and shot. He uses metal from the light frame to make hooks and clothing he gets in a package into rope. He is told he is going to be shot. He gets a cellmate, Joust. After much agonizing and questioning he decides he can trust him and tells him of the escape plan. On August 24, 1943 the two of then leave the cell and go up through the skylight onto the roof. They climb down into the courtyard and kill a guard. They scale the outer wall and get away.
An interesting film. A suspenseful movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. It is also a study of questions of loyalty, hope and despair.
A Man Escaped by Andre Devigny (The Lyons Press, Guilford, Conn., 2002) at pages 152 et. seq. give the
date of the escape
date of the escape
Producer - Alain Poiré & Jean Thuillier
Director - Robert Bresson
Screenplay - Robert Bresson
Runtime - 1 hour 39 minutes
Released - August 26, 1957
Starring -
François Leterrier as Lieutenant Fontaine
Charles Le Clainche as François Jost
Roland Monod as Le Pasteur
Maurice Beerblock as Blanchet
Jacques Ertaud as Orsini
Roger Treherne as Terry
Jean Paul Delhumeau as Hebrard
Jean Philippe Delamarre as Prisoner No, 110
César Gattegno as Le Prisonnier X
Jacques Oerlemans as Chief Warder
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