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Director:
Writers:
Chester Erskine (story) and
Irving Wallace (story) ...
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Release Date:
2 May 1953 (USA) more
Tagline:
Steel Your Nerves! Here's excitement that will smash them! more
Plot:
Sam Hurley, "Nation's No. 1 killer" with a cold contempt for "heroes," escapes prison with two companions... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Stephen McNally ... Sam Hurley

Alexis Smith ... Kay Garven
Jan Sterling ... Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
Keith Andes ... Larry Fleming
Arthur Hunnicutt ... Asa Tremaine
Paul Kelly ... Bart Moore
Robert Paige ... Arthur Ashton
Richard Egan ... Doctor Neal Garven
Frank DeKova ... Dummy (as Frank de Kova)
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Runtime:
85 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

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Plot holes: Considering the level of security around the test site, including the number of roadblocks set up to keep people away, how did Dr. Garven manage to drive into the ghost town seemingly unimpeded? more
Quotes:
Larry Fleming: You don't think very much of people, do you?
Sam Hurley: I don't think very much of anything.
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Referenced in Skullduggery (1983) more

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13 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
Surprise! This is exciting!, 27 October 1999
Author: Frank J. Raniere (ranierius@aol.com) from Bethlehem, Pa. U.S.A.

Stephen McNally, what a mean man. Boy, could he play the bad guy >and almost make you love him. Not to condone his actions in the >flick, but to say that he acted with bravado. He had the knack >for being mean. In this film, he needs to be the "man" to stay >alive, but fate has a way of making humans small. This story is >so tight and well done, that this is a keeper. Next time it's >run turn on the VCR and hit record. It's the kind of flick that >stands up well today by fitting in with the violent control >people will always display when they are criminals on the run. >Beautiful Alexis Smith and sultry Jan Sterling bring out the >animal instincts in the men of the cast. Their looks are just as >persuasive as their acting abilities. This is a "B" movie that >rates an "A+" for showing that it could be done with the right >chemistry of the cast, director and producer. I love this type >of flick!

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