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
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…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Gordon Wiles
- Writer
- Leonardo Bercovici
- Studio
- Malcolm-Browne Pictures Corp., Equity Pictures
- Released
- 1938-10-17
- Running time
- 63 minutes
Cast & crew
- Gordon Wiles Director
Fred Keating
Dorothy Comingore
Clarence Muse
Faith Bacon- Alexander Leftwich
Sam Bernard
James Blakeley- John Pearson
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.
