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Prison Train (1938)

1938 · Feature film · 63 min · dir. Gordon Wiles

Alcatraz is too good for him - I'll blast him to hell where he belongs

  • Drama
  • Crime
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Synopsis

Frankie Terris and Mannie Robbins are the two most powerful gangsters in their city. Frankie has a young sister, Louise, whom he has kept at a boarding school away from the stench of his racketeering. Mannie's young son, Joe, is also ignorant of his father's profession. Louise and Joe meet, and Joe tries to make love to her. Frankie interrupts and, in a fight that follows, kills Joe. Mannie vows to get Frankie. The latter, sentenced to Alcatraz, fears for Louise's safety and makes her promise to take a trip abroad. Louise learns that Mannie plans to shoot Frankie on the train taking him to prison, and she stows away in hopes of warning her brother. On the train, she falls into the protective arms of Federal Agent Bill Adams. Before she has a chance to warn Frankie, Mannie's henchmen go to work and a gangland shootout ensues.

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Details

Director
Gordon Wiles
Writer
Leonardo Bercovici
Studio
Malcolm-Browne Pictures Corp., Equity Pictures
Released
1938-10-17
Running time
63 minutes
Language
English
Collection
Feature Films

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Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Exciting, fast moving and surprise ending! · rlneva1941 · 2011-10-26

I am a prison buff having spent my career inside with the worst of the worst I could relate to this film. The unfortunate are the innocents that fall for criminals and that you will see. Even the criminal in this rolling plot generates compassion from the viewer and to my surprise the ending; you will be surprised too!

★★ · Still Sleeping · bearpuf · 2010-07-21

Not the worst cops and robbers movie I've seen but still below average script and sometimes worse acting. As I watched it this morning trying to wake up I only found it putting me back to sleep.

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