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The Escape

"SMASHING DRAMA of the city streets...thousands fighting...for survival!"

1939-10-05
5.5
en 63m
CrimeDrama
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.

Screenplay

Helen Logan

Producer

Sol M. Wurtzel

Director

Ricardo Cortez

Editor

Fred Allen

Screenplay

Robert Ellis

Director of Photography

Edward Cronjager

night watchman warehouse

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • 20th Century Fox