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The Escape
SMASHING DRAMA of the city streets...thousands fighting...for survival!
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.
Cast
- Kane Richmond as Eddie Farrell
- Amanda Duff as Juli Peronni
- June Gale as Annie Qualen
- Edward Norris as Louie Peronni
- Henry Armetta as Guiseppi Peronni
- Frank Reicher as Dr. Shumaker
- Scotty Beckett as Willie Rogers
- Leona Roberts as Aunt Mamie Qualen
- Rex Downing as Tommy Rogers
- Jimmy Butler as Jim Rogers
- Roger McGee as Swat
- Richard Lane as David Clifford
Details
- Director
- Ricardo Cortez
- Released
- October 5, 1939
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.2 / 10 from 2 votes
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