''Brady's Escape'' ( hu, Hosszu vagta) is a

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

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co-produced

war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war fi ...

, written and directed by

Pál Gábor Pál Gábor (2 November 1932 – 21 October 1987) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1962 and 1987. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. His most fam ...

. It was released in 1983 under several different titles: ''Hosszú vágta'' (''Long Gallop'') in Hungary, ''Brady's Escape'' in the US (1984) and ''The Long Ride'' in all other English-speaking territories. It stars John Savage as an Air Force pilot shot down over German-controlled Hungary during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, and

Kelly Reno Kelly Reno (born June 19, 1966) is a former child actor, rancher, and trucker. At age 11, he was cast in the role of Alec Ramsey, the young boy who is marooned on a deserted island along with an Arabian horse, in ''The Black Stallion'' (based on t ...

as a cowboy-idolizing teenager who teams up with him.

Home video

As of February 2020, the film has only been released internationally on VHS under various titles and in the US on VHS and

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as ''Brady's Escape''.

References

External links

* 1983 films Hungarian war drama films Hungarian-language films Films directed by Pál Gábor {{Hungary-film-stub