No Escape

Jul 31, 1953

1h 16m

★ 4.5

Brings you face to face with fear!

Overview

When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a struggling songwriter who is playing piano in a bar to be blamed for the crime. The girl, knowing that neither she nor the piano player committed the murder, helps him to escape from the police dragnet and try to find the real killer.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Matthugh Productions

No Escape Trailers

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Cast

John Howard Tracy

Lew Ayres

Det. Simon Shayne

Sonny Tufts

Pat Peterson

Marjorie Steele

Lt. Bruce Gunning

Lewis Martin

Olga Valerie Lewis

Gertrude Michael

Wilbur K. Grossett

Charles Cane

Turnip

Renny McEvoy

Claude Duffy (as Robert Watson)

Bobby Watson

Peter Hayden

James Griffith

Detective Bob

Robert Bailey

Dr. Seymour

Robert Carson

Office boy

Leon Burbank

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