Word: jailbreakers
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When Peter J. Curtis was sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him a studio to teach other convicts his idea of escape (TIME...
...husband breaks out of jail, furious at Mary for being unfaithful, determined to kill her lover. Mary saves Harry's life by pretending to be reconciled with her husband. Then Harry saves Mary in court, when she is accused of having assisted her spouse's jailbreak. All this, cheaply written by Vina Delmar, adds up to another program picture distinguished only for a few sequences in which Raft & Sidney make affectingly plausible the details of a shaky liaison between two urban peewees...
...idea. In this one the idea is a jail break by women, executed in rough & ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with a gangster who pays attention to Miss Sidney, gets rid of his old girl by sending...
Returned to jail, Laurel & Hardy attempt to take part in a jailbreak. But so muddled are their efforts that they aid the authorities more than the inmates and are rewarded by a pardon...
...LAST MILE-A jailbreak and an electrocution, which will keep you awake...