Behind Prison Gates
1939 film directed by Charles Barton
- July 28, 1939 (1939-07-28)
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Behind Prison Gates is a 1939 American crime film directed by Charles Barton and written by Arthur T. Horman and Leslie T. White. The film stars Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan, Paul Fix, George Lloyd and Dick Curtis. The film was released on July 28, 1939, by Columbia Pictures.[1][2][3]
Plot
Detective Norman Craig takes the identity of dead bank robber Red Murray in order to go into prison without raising suspicions, he starts looking for three other bank robbers, but one day his partner is found dead in his cell and now Norman also has to find his partner's murderer.
Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Norman Craig / Red Murray
- Julie Bishop as Sheila Murray
- Joseph Crehan as Warden O'Neil
- Paul Fix as Petey Ryan
- George Lloyd as Marty Conroy
- Dick Curtis as Capt. Simmons
- Richard Fiske as Lyman
- Lester Dorr as Floyd
References
External links
- Behind Prison Gates at IMDb
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Films directed by Charles Barton
- Wagon Wheels (1934)
- Car 99 (1935)
- The Last Outpost (1935)
- Nevada (1935)
- Timothy's Quest (1936)
- And Sudden Death (1936)
- Murder with Pictures (1936)
- Rose Bowl (1936)
- The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
- Forlorn River (1937)
- Thunder Trail (1937)
- Born to the West (1937)
- Behind Prison Gates (1939)
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
- My Son Is Guilty (1939)
- Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
- Island of Doomed Men (1940)
- Babies for Sale (1940)
- Out West with the Peppers (1940)
- Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
- The Phantom Submarine (1940)
- Nobody's Children (1940)
- Honolulu Lu (1941)
- The Richest Man in Town (1941)
- Sing for Your Supper (1941)
- Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
- Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
- Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942)
- Parachute Nurse (1942)
- Lucky Legs (1942)
- The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
- Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
- Reveille with Beverly (1943)
- What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
- Is Everybody Happy? (1943)
- She Has What It Takes (1943)
- Beautiful but Broke (1944)
- Hey, Rookie (1944)
- Jam Session (1944)
- Louisiana Hayride (1944)
- The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
- Men in Her Diary (1945)
- The Time of Their Lives (1946)
- Smooth as Silk (1946)
- White Tie and Tails (1946)
- Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
- The Noose Hangs High (1948)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Mexican Hayride (1948)
- Africa Screams (1949)
- Free for All (1949)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
- The Milkman (1950)
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
- Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
- The Shaggy Dog (1959)
- Toby Tyler (1960)
- Swingin' Along (1962)
