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Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)

Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)

Action Thriller

A helpless girl trapped between desperate cons and enemy rats in a lonely lighthouse!

Release Date: 1942, November 18
Directors: Edward Dmytryk
Countries: United States of America
Production: RKO Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Cliff Edwards, Kernan Cripps, Lee Phelps, Harry Strang, Richard Martin, Charles Flynn, Jack Martin, Frank Jenks, Edwin Stanley, Bonita Granville, Robert R. Stephenson, James Craig

Overview:

After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?

Keywords:

lighthouse code breaking escaped convict alcatraz prison war propaganda nazi spy nazi saboteurs nazi fascism in america