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Escape from Devil's Island

Escape from Devil's Island delivers exactly was the title promises...almost. Victor Jory and Norman...

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Fugitives

Accused of murdering her employer, nightclub vocalist Alice Carroll (Madge Bellamy) is vigorously...

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Hell's Half Acre

Hell's Half Acre was written directly for the screen by Steve Fisher, whose I Wake Up Screaming...

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Hell's Island

In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and...

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The Hide-Out

In this drama, a convict breaks out of jail and winds up going to college. There he joins the rowing...

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Jailbirds

In this British comedy, two escaped convicts dress up as women and get jobs at a bakery where they...

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Lady Gangster (1942)

A radio-station owner (Frank Wilcox) tries to reform a small-town girl (Faye Emerson) who has fallen...

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Numbered Men

The title alone should clue the reader that Numbered Men is a prison picture. Based on the stage...

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One Way Passage (1932)

A condemned man (William Powell) and dying woman (Kay Francis) fall in love on a ship from Hong Kong...

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Raw Deal

Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed...

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The Secret of Convict Lake

In 1871, a group of escaped convicts descends upon a small mountain settlement occupied only by...

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The Small Voice

An escaped convict (Harold Keel) and his henchmen hold a British playwright (James Donald) and his...

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Swamp Water

Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film. Walter Brennan plays...

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Under the Gun

A middle class business man watches his life completely fall apart and vows revenge against those...

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Underworld (1927)

Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead...

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Up the River (1930)

Two Sing Sing inmates (Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer) escape to help a buddy (Humphrey Bogart), then...

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Never Let Me Go (1953)

A U.S. reporter (Clark Gable) smuggles his ballerina wife (Gene Tierney) out of Russia, with an...

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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1954)

This French/Italian adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo began as a two-part film,...

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The Rustlers

Two cowboys (Tim Holt, Richard Martin) are taken for rustlers after winning marked money at...

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Three Smart Saps

Three lovely young ladies have to rely on their fiancés -- the Three Stooges -- to get their father...

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The Second Hundred Years

Laurel and Hardy are stripe-suited convicts in a cramped penitentiary cell. Seemingly model...

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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Three Little Pirates

This was Curly Howard's next to last film as a member of the Three Stooges. He would collapse from a...

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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1943)

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El Conde de Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas' oft-filmed novel of adventure, intrigue, revenge and...

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Gunman in the Streets

Eddie Roback (Dane Clark), an American army deserter turned criminal, is going to trial in Paris...

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Carne de Presidio

Pedro Armendariz stars as a man struggling to survive a stint in prison in Carne de Presidio. He is...

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Clandestinos

Three boys break out of jail and head to Madrid so their leader Xabi can make contact with a Basque...

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Gun Street

An injured outlaw tries to stay one step ahead of the determined sheriff (James Brown) on his trail.

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The Escapist

A man (Jonny Lee Miller) plots to gain entry into a high-security prison to kill the man who...