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Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Keywords
death row
prison escape
escaped convict
film noir
Casts
Edward G. Robinson
Vincent Canelli
Jean Parker
Hatti Combest
Peter Graves
Peter Manning
Milburn Stone
Father Slocum
Warren Stevens
Joey Stewart
Sylvia Findley
Ellen Norris
Jack Kelly
Frank Carson
Hal Baylor
Lou Mehrtens
James Bell
John Norris
Vic Perrin
Dr. Hart
Russell Johnson
Howard Sloane
Lee Aaker
Little Boy (uncredited)
James Bacon
Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)
Harry Bartell
Boland (uncredited)
Arthur Batanides
Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)
Ray Bennett
Alexander Watkins (uncredited)
Don Blackman
Selwyn (uncredited)
David Bond
Thompson (uncredited)
Alexander Campbell
Prison Warden (uncredited)
Ken Christy
Death Row Guard (uncredited)
John Close
Cop (uncredited)
Edmund Cobb
Bank Safe Deposit Box Guard (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
Newspaperman (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Police Inspector Hailey (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Fire Commissioner (uncredited)
John Halloran
Guard at Electrocution (uncredited)
Thomas Browne Henry
Reporter at Electrocution (uncredited)
Paul Maxey
Donaldson (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
John Phillips
Cop (uncredited)
Phillip Pine
Fiaschetti (uncredited)
Joey Ray
Reporter (uncredited)
Stafford Repp
Bert Posmonick (uncredited)
Dick Rich
Benny (uncredited)
Dick Ryan
Electrician Checking Electric Chair (uncredited)
William Schallert
Collins (uncredited)
Simon Scott
Parker (uncredited)
Carl Sklover
Reporter (uncredited)
Than Wyenn
Bank Teller (uncredited)
Carleton Young
Radio Broadcast (uncredited)
Crews
Hugo Fregonese
Director
Paul Dunlap
Original Music Composer
Stanley Cortez
Director of Photography
Robert Golden
Editor
Robert Goldstein
Producer
Sydney Boehm
Screenplay
Hilyard M. Brown
Art Direction
Alfred E. Spencer
Set Decoration
Sydney Boehm
Story
Gustaf Norin
Makeup Artist
Sam Wurtzel
Assistant Director
Tom Lambert
Sound
Jerry Bryan
Dialogue Coach
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