Escape to France

Escape is a 1948 thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins and William Hartnell. The screenplay by Philip Dunne was based on the 1926 play Escape by John Galsworthy, which had previously been filmed in 1930. A Royal Air Force World War II veteran goes to prison and then escapes and meets a woman who persuades him to surrender.