Escape from Crime

Jul 25, 1942

0h 51m

★ 5.2

I loved a guy with a gun!

Overview

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

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Dennis Daniel "Red" O'Hara

Richard Travis

Molly O'Hara

Julie Bishop

Evans - Convict Getting Mug Shot (as Jackie C. Gleason)

Jackie Gleason

Cornell

Frank Wilcox

Slim Dugan

Rex Williams

Lieutenant 'Biff' Malone

Wade Boteler

C.L. Reardon - Managing Editor (as Charles Wilson)

Charles C. Wilson

Dude Merrill

Paul Fix

Myrt - Slim's Moll

Ruth Ford

Rafferty

John Hamilton

Belle Mason - Dude's Moll

Ann Corcoran

Warden Kirby

Ben Taggart

After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose custody of his 9-year-old daughter unless he helps bring down local crime lord Bama McCall. McKlusky enlists the help of reporter Aggie Maybank and a few local eccentrics to bring down McCall's empire.

5.2

Tenderness

Jan 15, 2009

A hardened cop tries to unravel the past to discover whether a violent teenager was responsible for the murder of his family. A confused fifteen-year-old runaway becomes enthralled with the young man.

5.9

Trapped

Sep 27, 1949

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to double-cross them.

5.8

Murder Is My Beat

Feb 27, 1955

Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, burned beyond recognition. Nightclub-singer Eden Lane is convicted of the crime. She is escorted to prison by one of the arresting detectives when she convinces him that she just spotted the murderer outside their train.

5.8

The Power of the Whistler

Apr 19, 1945

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.

6.5

Tomorrow Is Another Day

Aug 8, 1951

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.

6.4

Highway 301

Dec 1, 1950

The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.

6.0

The Mark of the Whistler

Oct 9, 1944

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.

5.0

Double Jeopardy

Jun 23, 1955

Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.

5.9

Mysterious Intruder

Apr 11, 1946

A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.

5.9

The Secret of the Whistler

Nov 7, 1946

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

5.3

Escape in the Fog

Apr 5, 1945

A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.

5.2

Grand Theft Auto

Jun 16, 1977

A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.

6.2

The Yards

Apr 27, 2000

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

7.1

Crime Wave

Oct 22, 1953

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.

6.1

The Anderson Tapes

Jun 17, 1971

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.

5.8

The Flanagan Boy

Apr 10, 1953

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.

5.7

Supremacy

Jun 12, 2014

The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.

2.3

The Wild World of Batwoman

Jan 1, 1966

Batwoman and her bevy of Batmaidens fight evil and dance.

0.0

The Photographic Experience

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The Photographic Experience, a short film by Anthony Bvlgari, follows Tony, an environmental photographer of the 1970s as his newly acquired camera reveals its photographic history to him. Photographic Experience is made as a moving artwork in mind, stylistically exploring popular film styles and genres of the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, and 1930s.