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6.5/10   68 votes
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Director:
Fred F. Sears
Writers:
Caryl Chessman (book)
Jack DeWitt (writer)
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Release Date:
19 April 1955 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
Confession before the cameras by convicted "Lover's Lane" Bandit!
Plot:
Whit (William Campbell), condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Tough, direct, and totally unsympathetic... more (6 total)

Cast

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William Campbell ... Whit Whittier
R. Wright Campbell ... Whit as a boy (as Robert Campbell)
Marian Carr ... Doll
Kathryn Grant ... Jo-Anne
Harvey Stephens ... Warden
Vince Edwards ... Hamilton
Allen Nourse ... Serl Whittier
Diane DeLaire ... Hallie Whittier
Bart Braverman ... Whit, as a Young Boy (as Bart Bradley)
Paul Dubov ... Al
Tyler MacDuff ... Nugent
Buck Kartalian ... Monk
Eleanor Audley ... Blanche
Thom Carney ... Hatcheck Charlie
Joseph Forte ... Lawyer (as Joe Forte)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cell Block (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
77 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (1955-1956) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Columbia Pictures Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The actors playing Whit Whittier as an adult (William Campbell) and a boy (R. Wright Campbell) are real-life brothers. more
Movie Connections:
Version of "Cela da Morte" (1958) more

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Tough, direct, and totally unsympathetic..., 13 January 2008
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Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Fred F. Sears directed this adaptation of Death Row inmate Caryl Chessman's memoirs of being the first criminal ever to be sentenced to death without actually murdering anyone (he fell under the Little Lindbergh Law, kidnapping with bodily harm to the victim). For unexplained reasons, screenwriter Jack DeWitt has changed Chessman's name here to Whit Whittier (!), but the film pulls no punches in detailing his crimes, from boyhood to hard-bitten adult. These episodes, in and out of the slammer, are like a textbook for pulpy B-movies, yet Sears never gets glossy (this is no film-noir). Still, the hammering Sears gives the viewer is exhausting (even at 75 minutes, the picture feels lengthy). Crime-buffs will be impressed, all others not enamored of the genre might get restless. Vince Edwards has a small part as one of Whittier's later co-horts, six years before his "Ben Casey" television series and he never even gets a close-up. ** from ****

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