Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Cast & Crew
Lewis D. Collins
Jack Holt
Marian Marsh
Robert Barrat
Phillip Terry
Dennis Moore
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Synopsis
Bill Harding's love for Ann Baldwin causes him to become involved with a gang of criminals when he tries to convince Ann's brother Ted to quit the gang. Arrested as an accomplice of the gang, Bill is sent to jail despite the belief of Sheriff Lawson that the boy is innocent. Lawson has an idealistic plan of establishing a work prison camp to which young first offenders may be sent in order to keep them apart from the hardened criminals in the prisons. Bill is sent to Lawson's camp and is assigned to work on a road job on which a crooked contractor is defaulting. Realizing that the road is about to be completed, the contractor bribes Chester Russell, the county engineer, to sabotage the project. Following the unheeded warning Sheriff Lawson gives Russell about a dangerous safety condition on the work site, a rockslide occurs and some of the prisoners are injured. Meanwhile, Bill, discouraged when the court rejects his appeals, decides to break out of jail with Slugger Martin, Russell's operative in the sabotage attempts. After the break, Bill seeks refuge at Ann's, while Martin and the others are intercepted and gunned down by the police. Tracking Bill to Ann's house, Lawson tells him that in a deathbed confession Martin exonerated him of any complicity in the gang, and he is now a free man.
Director
Lewis D. Collins
Cast
Jack Holt
Marian Marsh
Robert Barrat
Phillip Terry
Dennis Moore
Jack Larue
George Offerman Jr.
Frankie Burke
Donald Haines
Alan Baldwin
Frank Larue
Ernest Morrison
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
The working title for this film was Offenders of the Law. Hollywood Reporter pre-production news items list actors John Hamilton and Russell Hicks in the cast, but their appearance in the released film has not been confirmed.
