San Quentin (1946)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Lawrence Tierney	...	Jim Roland
	Barton MacLane	...	Nick Taylor
	Marian Carr	...	Betty Richards
	Harry Shannon	...	Warden Kelly
	Carol Forman	...	Ruthie
	Joe Devlin	...	'Broadway' Johnson
	Tom Keene	...	Hal Schaeffer, Robbery Detail (as Richard Powers)
	Tony Barrett	...	Steve Marlowe
	Lee Bonnell	...	Joe Carzoni
	Robert Clarke	...	Tommy North
	Raymond Burr	...	Jeff Torrance
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Franklyn Farnum	...	Doctor (scenes deleted)

Storyline

Television viewer seeing this for the first time: Gee whiz, it's in black-and-white and was made in the 40's and is about crime and...Eureka!...another "noir" film is discovered. How about just another typical Martin Mooney film that starts out as pretending to be something socially significant---call Prison Warden Lewis E. Lawes to do another prologue speech---and then quickly gets into just another cops-vs-robbers (or good crooks vs. bad crooks)B-feature action-thriller that will open in every 2nd-tier theatre in the country on Sunday, close on Wednesday... and be the bottom-half of a grind-house twin-bill two weeks later. "San Quentin" ably fills that description. Ex-con Jim Rowland (Lawrence Tierney), gone straight and returning from WWII as a hero, is more than a bit irked, as one of the founders of the Prison Welfare League (cons rehabilitating cons inside and outside the walls)... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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