You Can't Get Away with Murder

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

5.7(23)19391h 29m

DramaCrime

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.

Director

Lewis Seiler

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Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Frank Wilson

Gale Page

Madge Stone

Billy Halop

John 'Johnny' Stone

John Litel

Attorney Carey

Henry Travers

Pop

Harvey Stephens

Fred Burke

Harold Huber

Scappa

Joe Sawyer

Red

Joe Downing

Smitty

George E. Stone

Toad

Joe King

Prison Guard

Joseph Crehan

Warden of Sing Sing

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1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

Even though the star of the piece was Humphrey Bogart, the best performance here belongs to the young Billy Halop ("Johnnie") who falls in with petty criminal "Wilson" (Bogart). The latter man pinches a gun from the younger man's soon-to-be brother in law, and when it is used in a killing, it's the fiancé "Fred" (Harvey Stephens) who faces the chair... Shortly afterwards, our two aspiring hoodlums...