This 1935/1936 movie is about a reporter flirts with a prison worker while solving a state prison inmates murder. Mike Eagen is the main character who is put in prison for a minor offense. Mike Eagen told the reporter, Jane Rogers he had $300,000 cash in the clear. Pop Anderson, prison librarian is murdered while attempting to tell the prison warden what he found in a book "Epigrams" by Marcus Aurelius. Periodic prison riots are fairly well staged. The prisoners hide harmonicas in dough while guards are searching for the gun that killed the main character Mike Eagen, who allegedly had $300,000 and was being paroled. The key to the money was in the book in the prison library. Bad guy who hid the gun kills a guard and makes a jailbreak. $5,000 reward in the next days paper for the escaped prisoner, Ed Slayton. Jane Rogers is the girl that works for Mike Eagen who was killed in his cell. Charges were filed against both for the death of Mike Eagen. Captain Roark is in charge. The ending shows the reporter talking into a dead phone again proposing to Jane Rogers and ends with a kiss. A movie representative of its time with good and bad on both sides of the jail bars. Nothing extravagant but good sets in the prison laundry or kitchen. Well played. The reporter, Williams, filed a report about a real killer to a dead phone line while all the suspects where in the room with the reporter. The lights get turned off just as the name is announced.
Review of Jailbreak
