Film Preview – Chichester Observer – Saturday, 08 January 1949

PAVILION, SELSEY. For the first time in history the entire Olympic Games, including the Winter Sports and the ceremony of the Torch can be witnessed as a full-length Technicolor feature film, “XIVth OLYMPIAD—THE GLORY OF SPORT,” which is to be screened on Monday for three days. In aim, matter and manner of production there has never been a film like it. Castleton Knight, for many years producer of Gaumont-British News, is the man responsible for this epic. John Galsworthy's "ESCAPE,” the distinguished novelist’s classic story of a man-about-town who finds himself convicted of manslaughter, and escapes from Dartmoor only to give himself up when he compromises a country vicar, has been made into a thrilling film which completes the week's entertainment. Rex Harrison plays the wealthy, carefree and unattached ex- R.A.F. Officer, and Peggy Cummins is the girl who befriends him.