There is No Escape (also known as The Dark Road and The Thurston Story) is a 1948 British second feature ('B')[2] drama film directed by Alfred J. Goulding and starring Farnham Baxter, Cyril Chamberlain, Sydney Bromley and Stanley Thurston (billed as Charles Stewart).

At the end of the film he turns to the audience and tells them that a criminal life just isn't worth the candle, especially when guns are brought into crime.

With some twenty minutes' unnecessary footage pruned away the film might become mediocre second-feature entertainment, but in its present state it does not deserve serious criticism.

"[11] Kine Weekly wrote: "'Crime does not pay' melodrama, illustrating the story submitted to the editor of an American thriller magazine.

Its object is apparently to prove that honesty is the best policy, but amateurish acting, uneven direction and a dishevelled script prevent it from underlining its message with exciting, let alone plausible, 'thick ear.'