Road to the Big House - 1947
John Shelton is a low level bank employee who is tired of waiting to move up the wage scale. He wants to give is wife everything he wishes he could. He decides to help himself to 200 thousand of the bank's cash. He picks a bank long weekend so he can get away to South America where the two of them could live the high life.
The wife is horrified that the man she loves would do this and turns him over to the police. He gets 10 years in prison which will be commuted to time served if he tells where he hid the cash. He refuses and off to hard time he goes.
He is worked over by the guards and the other convicts because they all want the cash. Shelton does not break and keeps the cash location to himself. After five years he gets involved in an escape plan but is quickly recaptured and gets another 5 years added to his time.
15 years later he gets out of prison and heads for the cash. It is not there, the wife had found it and returned it to the bank. 15 years down the tubes! The old crime does not pay story again. Seen worse, seen better.
John Shelton is a low level bank employee who is tired of waiting to move up the wage scale. He wants to give is wife everything he wishes he could. He decides to help himself to 200 thousand of the bank's cash. He picks a bank long weekend so he can get away to South America where the two of them could live the high life.
The wife is horrified that the man she loves would do this and turns him over to the police. He gets 10 years in prison which will be commuted to time served if he tells where he hid the cash. He refuses and off to hard time he goes.
He is worked over by the guards and the other convicts because they all want the cash. Shelton does not break and keeps the cash location to himself. After five years he gets involved in an escape plan but is quickly recaptured and gets another 5 years added to his time.
15 years later he gets out of prison and heads for the cash. It is not there, the wife had found it and returned it to the bank. 15 years down the tubes! The old crime does not pay story again. Seen worse, seen better.