![]() ![]() ![]() Later on 15 March 1983, Gary escaped again from police custody. A pacy screenplay, co-written by director Francis Annan and adapted from a book by Jenkin, rarely flags, but it’s the nervy camera, hugging the characters at hip height, the better to scrutinise each locked barrier to freedom, that most successfully builds the tension. Serial killer Carlton Gary escaped from a low-security prison by sawing through the bars of his cell. An overwrought, chest-thumping score is surplus to requirements in a film that already feels as though everything, from the characters to the walls of the cells, is sodden with panic sweats. So through an ingenious system of fake keys and levers, the men engineer a breakout. Their status as civil rights activists makes them targets for particularly malicious brutality from the guards their lengthy sentences seem untenable. Escape from Pretoria (2020) Trailer Two white South Africans, imprisoned for working on behalf of the ANC, are determined to escape from Pretoria’s notorious white man’s ‘Robben Island’ Prison. The two men (a third escapee, played by Mark Leonard Winter, is a fictionalised version of a real character) are incarcerated for distributing ANC material by leaflet bombs. ![]() T he real-life jailbreak of apartheid-era political prisoners Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber) is the inspiration for this taut thriller. ![]()
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