Jailbreak

• Director: Nick Grinde
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Crime
• Movie Type: Prison Film, Crime Drama
• Themes: Members of the Press, Clearing One's Name
• Main Cast: June Travis, Craig Reynolds, Barton MacLane, Dick Purcell, Addison Richards
• Release Year: 1936
• Country: US
• Run Time: 62 minutes

Plot

Jailbreak is a formula Warners "B" with all the attendant stereotypes. Dick Purcell plays a convict accused of murdering a fellow prisoner. Craig Reynolds, a temporarily incarcerated reporter, sets about to prove Purcell's innocence. June Travis is the "girl on the outside," awaiting the release of Reynolds and acting as his conduit to the "free" world. To no one's surprise, prison-flick veteran Barton MacLaine is also in the picture--but to everyone's surprise, he's one of the good guys. Jailbreak was remade in 1942 as Murder in the Big House, which represented one of the earliest screen appearances of Van Johnson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• June Travis - Jane Rogers
• Craig Reynolds - Ken Williams
• Barton MacLane - Detective Capt. Rourke
• Dick Purcell - Ed Slayden
• Addison Richards - Dan Varner

George E. Stone - Weeper; Eddie Acuff - Sig Patton; Joseph King - Big Mike Egan; Joseph Crehan - Warden; Mary Treen - Gladys Joy; Henry Hall - Pop Anderson; Charles B. Middleton - Dan Stone; Robert Emmett Keane - City Editor

Credit

Nick Grinde - Director, Harold McLernon - Editor, Arthur Todd - Cinematographer, Bryan Foy - Producer, Jonathan Finn - Screen Story, Robert D. Andrews - Screenwriter, Joseph Hoffman - Screenwriter