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The Escape (1939)

Movie"SMASHING DRAMA of the city streets...thousands fighting...for survival!"
Audience Score
55
The Escape
NR 1 hr 3 minOct 5th, 1939Drama, Crime
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.

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 5th, 1939
Original Language:English
Production Companies:20th Century Fox