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RKO Radio Pictures
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The Terrific drama about men who are about to die!
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Preston Foster
Steven Mathews
Ann Dvorak
Connie Stewart
John Beal
John Thompson
Gordon Jones
Slim Tolliver
Russell Hopton
MacAndrews
J. Carrol Naish
Nick Trotti
Paul Hurst
Tip Fuller
Frank Jenks
Clyde Beasley
John Wray
Jerry Daley
Frank M. Thomas
M.L. Carter
Barnett Parker
John Barkley
Willie Fung
Kwong
John Carroll
Joe Donahue
DeWitt Jennings
Mike Brannigan
Landers Stevens
Warden Lawton
John 'Skins' Miller
Macy
Howard Hickman
Prison Chaplain
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Detective Mitchell
Oscar Apfel
Mr. Armitage (uncredited)
William Bailey
Policeman Passenger (uncredited)
Willie Best
Airport Porter (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
Plainclothesman with Rifle (uncredited)
Harry Bowen
Agitated Citizen in Mob (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Worker Throwing Stone (uncredited)
Sonny Bupp
Hit-and-Run Victim (uncredited)
William Burress
Charlie Gaunt (uncredited)
Ralph Byrd
Police Lab Technician (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Prison Guard Sergeant (uncredited)
Wallis Clark
Dr. Hedges (uncredited)
Frank Fanning
Guard in Visitor's Room (uncredited)
Jim Farley
Police Officer Johnson (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
Blake's Associate (uncredited)
Russell Hicks
District Attorney Knight (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Edward Keane
Ed Stanley (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Agitated Citizen at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Judge (uncredited)
Wilfred Lucas
Prison Yard Captain (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Prison Lab Technician (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Death-Row Captain Harris (uncredited)
Jack Perry
Convict Making Noise with Cup (uncredited)
George H. Reed
Black Convict (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Man in District Attorney's Office (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Cell Block E Convict (uncredited)
Richard Tucker
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Convict (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Prison Lieutenant (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Cell Block E Convict (uncredited)
Ethel Wales
Travel Bureau Customer (uncredited)
Walter Walker
The Governor (uncredited)
Bryant Washburn
Martin Blake (uncredited)
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Christy Cabanne
Director
John Twist
Screenplay
In the Name of the Father
The Thin Blue Line
12 Angry Men
Purple Noon
The Talk of the Town
A Place in the Sun
Incident at Oglala
Breaker Morant
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Helter Skelter
Ladies of the Jury
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Dust Be My Destiny
Tom Horn
A Murder of Crows
Snow Falling on Cedars
Bordertown
Striptease
The Hunt for the BTK Killer
Jamaica Inn
Plunder Road
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Each Dawn I Die
The Interview
The Assault
The Glass Key
Cry of the City
They Made Me a Fugitive
Framed
The Blue Gardenia
M
Time Without Pity
Madame X
Witness to Murder
Knock on Any Door
House of Bamboo
The Dark Past
The Truth About Emanuel
The Quiller Memorandum
Honeydripper
Jan 8, 1937
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