Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Howard Phillips | Richard Walters |
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Preston Foster | John 'Killer' Mears - Cell 4 |
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George E. Stone | Berg - Cell 1 |
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Noel Madison | D'Amoro - Cell 6 |
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Alan Roscoe | Kirby - Cell 7 |
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Paul Fix | Werner - Cell 8 |
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Al Hill | Mayer - Cell 3 |
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Daniel L. Haynes | Jackson - Cell 2 |
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Edward Van Sloan | Rabbi |
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Louise Carter | Mrs. Walters |
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Ralph Theodore | Pat Callahan - Principal Keeper |
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Jack Kennedy | O'Flaherty |
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Albert J. Smith | Drake |
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William Scott | Peddie |
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Kenneth MacDonald | Harris |
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Walter Walker | Governor Blaine |
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Alec B. Francis | Father O'Connor |
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Gladden James | Warden's Secretary |
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Francis McDonald | First Gas Station Holdup Man |
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Frank Meredith | Jury Member |
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John T. Prince | Jury Member |
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Frank Sheridan | Warden Frank Lewis |
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Max Wagner | Max Kruger |
Director | Samuel Bischoff |
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Writer | John Wexley, Seton I. Miller | |
Producer | Samuel Bischoff, Burt Kelly, William Saal | |
Photography | Arthur Edeson |