Wednesday 7 March 2012

Informing

Danger Within (1959)

Don Chaffey directs this British war film which stars Richard Todd, Bernard Lee and Richard Attenborough. A group of British officers try to escape from a POW camp in Italy but it seems there is an informant in their ranks.

Despite the central premise of the film being about an informant the film does not really focus on this, rather it is more a side topic to various escape attempts. Really this film should have played off the tension of infighting and trying to find the informant but ends up being a fairly average film. There are decent performances as you would expect from this cast and it is worth looking out for an early, uncredited appearance from Michael Caine.

3/5

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