Port of Escape – 1956 | 76 mins | Crime | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Dreary crime melodrama based on a play by Barbara Harper. This was Googie Withers final British film before moving to Australia with husband and co-star John McCallum.

Set in London’s docks. Mitch (John McCallum) and Dinty (Bill Kerr) are two war veterans trying to work their passage back to Missouri,where the amnesic Dinty believes he owns a farm. Following an altercation in a pub, the pair are involved in a fight with a jealous boyfriend in the surrounding streets – and the man is occidentally stabbed.

The only witness appears to be Anne Stirling (Googie Withers), so Mitch and Dinty follow her back to her barge and proceed to hold the eyewitness and two others hostage, Daphne (Wendy Danielli) and Mrs Watchett (Joan Hickson) until making their escape out of the country.