The Escape

1939 "SMASHING DRAMA of the city streets...thousands fighting...for survival!"
6.2| 1h3m| NR| en
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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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ThiefHott Too much of everything
Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece
Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.