Escape in the Fog

Escape in the Fog

Slipping silently out of the fog... came murder!

NR 1945 · 63 min · ★ 5.4 · Thriller, Crime

A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

Directed by Budd Boetticher · Written by Aubrey Wisberg

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