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Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country. —IMDb

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Daniel S.

1Oct11

Pretty rare noir by Hugo Fregonese, a director nobody ever speaks of. Nothing really special about this one with the exception of a few scenes in the electric chair room. A movie zone hardcore Noir fans. Only.

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