The Escape

The Escape (1939)

SMASHING DRAMA of the city streets...thousands fighting...for survival!

  • Genre: Crime, Drama
  • Release Date: 1939-10-05
  • User Rating: 5.5/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 3min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Ricardo Cortez
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Summary

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.

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  • Kane Richmond

    as Eddie Farrell

  • Amanda Duff

    as Juli Peronni

  • June Gale

    as Annie Qualen

  • Edward Norris

    as Louie Peronni

  • Henry Armetta

    as Guiseppi Peronni

  • Frank Reicher

    as Dr. Shumaker

  • Scotty Beckett

    as Willie Rogers

  • Leona Roberts

    as Aunt Mamie Qualen

  • Rex Downing

    as Tommy Rogers

  • Jimmy Butler

    as Jim Rogers

  • Roger McGee

    as Swat

  • Richard Lane

    as David Clifford

  • Jack Carson

    as Chet Warren

  • Matt McHugh

    as Pete

  • Helen Ericson

    as Helen Gardner

  • Jessie Arnold

    as Neighbor

  • Stanley Blystone

    as Policeman

  • Nick Copeland

    as Chummy Miller

  • Ellen Drew

    as Reporter

  • Jack Easton

    as Reporter

  • Sam Finn

    as Gangster

  • Mary Gordon

    as Neighbor

  • John Harmon

    as Gangster

  • Aggie Herring

    as Mrs. Nearny

  • Al Hill

    as Lefty

  • Selmer Jackson

    as Mr. Henley

  • Thomas E. Jackson

    as Police Lieutenant

  • Jerry Jerome

    as Gangster

  • Edward Keane

    as Captain of Detectives

  • Milton Kibbee

    as Neighbor

  • Robert Lowery

    as Ambulance Driver

  • James T. Mack

    as Watchman

  • Ivan Miller

    as Police Captain

  • Bruce Mitchell

    as Police Sergeant

  • David Newell

    as Reporter

  • Pat O'Malley

    as Neighbor

  • Sandra Lee Richards

    as Clifford Child

  • Agnes Steele

    as Matron

  • Fred Walburn

    as Boy

  • Garland Weaver

    as Reporter

  • Mark Roberts

    as MIckey
Writing Helen Logan Screenplay
Production Sol M. Wurtzel Producer
Directing Ricardo Cortez Director
Editing Fred Allen Editor
Writing Robert Ellis Screenplay
Camera Edward Cronjager Director of Photography

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