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Escape Me Never

Play trailer Poster for Escape Me Never 1935,  1h 32m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 100% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 17% 50+ Ratings Popcornmeter
100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 17% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
A struggling composer (Hugh Sinclair) marries an unwed mother (Elisabeth Bergner) out of compassion for her, but he is unfaithful to her with his brother's (Griffith Jones) wife (Penelope Dudley Ward), the woman he actually loves.

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Variety Staff Variety Feb 23, 2012
A well-produced film transcription of a story of moods and morbidity. Go to Full Review
Pare Lorentz McCall's Oct 30, 2023
You never would want to see the picture more than once, but there are very few Bergners in the world and, lacking any other immediate opportunity to see her... you will find Escape Me Never an important, if typical, star movie. Go to Full Review
Forsyth Hardy Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021
The camera does its work of photographing Bergner smoothly, sensitively and unobtrusively and Paul Czinner in his direction reveals that mastery over mood which made Der Traumende Mund memorable. Go to Full Review
Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine Jul 22, 2019
Elizabeth Bergner as the waiflike Gemma Jones, gives the finest screen performance of the year. Highly recommended. Go to Full Review
Helen Brown Norden Vanity Fair Jun 12, 2019
It is due to the bright magic of Elisabeth Bergner that the film assumes importance. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 2, 2011
B-
The great stage actress Elisabeth Bergner received an Oscar nomination for this melodrama, in which she plays an unwed mother. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Paul Czinner

Director

Elisabeth Bergner

Gemma Jones

Hugh Sinclair

Sebastian Sanger

Griffith Jones

Caryl Sanger

Penelope Dudley-Ward

Fenella McClean

Irene Vanbrugh

Lady Helen McClean

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Escape Me Never

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Movie Info

Synopsis A struggling composer (Hugh Sinclair) marries an unwed mother (Elisabeth Bergner) out of compassion for her, but he is unfaithful to her with his brother's (Griffith Jones) wife (Penelope Dudley Ward), the woman he actually loves.
Director
Paul Czinner
Producer
Herbert Wilcox
Screenwriter
Robert Cullen, Carl Zuckerman
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 32m
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