Escape from Crime (1942)

Name: Escape from Crime
Genre: Crime
Released: 1942-07-25
Duration: 51 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Richard Travis, Julie Bishop, Jackie Gleason, Frank Wilcox, Rex Williams

Escape from Crime (1942), directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Richard Travis and Julie Bishop.

07/25/1942 BR Crime 51m

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Synopsis

Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.

James Van TreesCinematography
D. Ross LedermanDirector
Doug GouldEditing
William JacobsProducer

About the film

Escape from Crime is a 1942 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. It has essentially the same plot as the earlier Picture Snatcher (1933).

Red O'Hara serves a prison sentence after being framed by Dude Merrill. Once he is released, he gets a job as a news photographer.

Red takes a mug shot of a big talking new inmate as he does his prison job. Minutes later Red is paroled for no apparent reason and is a free man. One of his old gang buddies picks him up and he finds out that the reason his wife hadn’t come to see him in prison is because she was pregnant with their son. Now he wants to put gang life behind him and get a job as a newspaper reporter. Although the newspaper is hesitant to hire an ex convict, he catches a break by taking pictures of his former gang members shooting their way out of a bank robbery. That leads to a good-paying regular job, but one that requires him to secretly film the electric chair-execution of his former gang friend, who, with others, was convicted of the bank robbery Red had photographed.

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Escape from Crime is a 1942 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. It has essentially the same plot as the earlier Picture Snatcher (1933).

Red O'Hara serves a prison sentence after being framed by Dude Merrill. Once he is released, he gets a job as a news photographer.

Cast

Richard Travis as Red O'Hara

Julie Bishop as Molly O'Hara

Jackie Gleason as Screwball Evans (as Jackie C. Gleason)

Frank Wilcox as Cornell

Rex Williams as Slim Dugan

Wade Boteler as Lieutenant 'Biff' Malone

Charles C. Wilson as Reardon (as Charles Wilson)

Paul Fix as Dude Merrill

Ruth Ford as Myrt

John Hamilton as Rafferty

Ann Corcoran as Belle Mason

Ben Taggart as Warden Kirby

References

External links

Escape from Crime at IMDb

Escape from Crime at the TCM Movie Database (archived)

Escape from Crime at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

Text from Escape from Crime on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Crime

Trivia

It premiered on July 25, 1942, a Saturday.
It runs 0h51 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 12 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.