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Released
1939 · FILM

You Can't Get Away with Murder

AMERICA'S TWO-FISTER ANSWER to the Gun-Mad Rats Who Rule the Underworld!

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Runtime
89 min
CrimeDramaFilm-Noir

Synopsis

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

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Craft leads on file

Edited by James GibbonShot by Sol PolitoScored by Heinz Roemheld

Also known as

  • Le Châtimentfr
  • La bolgia dei viviit

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