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The Escape (1939)

The Escape (1939)

Drama Crime

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

Release Date: 1939, October 5
Directors: Ricardo Cortez
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Mary Gordon, Sam Finn, Al Hill, Leona Roberts, David Newell, Edward Keane, Milton Kibbee, Mark Roberts, Jack Carson, Matt McHugh, John Harmon, Stanley Blystone

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

warehouse night watchman