Escape from Broadmoor

John Le Meseurier breaks out of prison, where he had been sent after evading the hangman's noose by giving evidence against his accomplice in a murder. He talks Tony Doonan into breaking into the house in which he had committed the earlier crime; there's a safe where some valuable jewels are kept. When they are in mid-work, however, a young woman comes in and proceeds to mock them....

It's Le Meseurier's first movie, but it's also John Gilling's first movie as a director. Given his career later, it should come as no surprise that it's a ghost story, and a decent creepy-crawly. What may come as a surprise is its running time. 38 minutes is too long for a short subject and too short for even a B picture. It could very well work in a long program or a three-feature show, but that was not the standard even back then. It's like the novella in fiction these days, with all the fiction magazines gone. Still, it would fit in nicely with the coming world of the television, where forty minutes might appear as a hole in the scheduling.