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Director:
Lewis Seiler
Writers:
Jerome Odlum (novel)
Robert Rossen (writer)
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Release Date:
16 September 1939 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm... more | add synopsis
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Vintage Garfield in fast-moving suspense flick more (8 total)

Cast

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John Garfield ... Joe Bell
Priscilla Lane ... Mabel Alden
Alan Hale ... Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Frank McHugh ... Caruthers
Billy Halop ... Hank Glenn
Bobby Jordan ... Jimmy Glenn
Charley Grapewin ... Pop, a Brakeman
Henry Armetta ... Nick Spelucci
Stanley Ridges ... Charles 'Charlie' Garreth
John Litel ... Prosecutor
Moroni Olsen ... Slim Jones, Joe's Defense Attorney
Victor Kilian ... Doc Saunders
Frank Jaquet ... Ab Connors
Ferike Boros ... Delicatessen Proprietress
Marc Lawrence ... Venetti
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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:G | Finland:K-16
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

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Trivia:
The original ending of the film called for Joe and Mabel to be shot to death, but the commercial failure of You Only Live Once (1937), which had a tragic ending, compelled the Warner Bros. studio heads to demand a happy ending. When writer Robert Rossen refused to write the new ending, Seton I. Miller was brought in to write it. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as I Was Framed (1942) more
Soundtrack:
My Wild Irish Rose more

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Vintage Garfield in fast-moving suspense flick, 8 October 2001
Author: aromatic-2 (aromatic@ivillage.com) from New York, NY

Garfield is excellent as falsely-accused Joe Bell escaping to try to prove his innocence. Priscilla Lane is excellent in a character type she repeated three years later, virtually word-for-word, in Saboteur with Robert Cummings. But, this film stands on its own merits, even without the Hitchcockian camera angles or the Statue of Liberty. It is soulful, well-scripted, and tense.

I highly recommend it.

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