The Get-Away
"Keep your eye on the beautiful brunette!"
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
"Keep your eye on the beautiful brunette!"
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Robert Sterling
Jeff Crane
Charles Winninger
Doctor Josiah Glass
Donna Reed
Maria Theresa 'Terry' O'Reilly
Henry O'Neill
Warden Alcott
Dan Dailey
Sonny Black
Donald Douglas
James 'Jim' Duff (as Don Douglas)
Ernest Whitman
Moose Jones
Grant Withers
Rufe Parker, a Gangster
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Higgins
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.