Word: jailbreaks
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...course, possible that Willy might have had Schuster shot in retaliation. But a supposition like this proves that either the police didn't know Sutton very well, or that Sutton had changed since the days of his Philadelphia jailbreak. As the youngest comic-book fan of Gangbusters will testify, Willy was never a man for violence, especially killing...
...jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping Co. in the psychologist's office; Wilson quelling a near prison riot singlehanded...
Prophet. In Eaton, Ohio. Prisoner John Emerson Ballinger tipped off county officers to a planned jailbreak, made his escape while they investigated...
...against 20th Century-Fox for its movie, Roger Touhy, Gangster. Roger charged that the film had maligned him grossly. He planned to use the $15,000 in his "fight for freedom," i.e., to beat the kidnaping rap, plus a concurrent 199-year sentence for his role in a 1942 jailbreak...
...stay in one place. But they have promised to give us a count tonight." A Sternist spokesman thought more than half had returned to the jail; he expected more to come back "if they can get through the police lines." It was only a protest demonstration, not a jailbreak, he explained. "We have just been out doing a little fraternization with...