Sadly, Joe King is not Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, George raft or Humphrey Bogart. While he plays a racketeer, he's a type of character actor that you'd see in a minor part, and here, the story focuses on his character even though he's build v in this Warner Brothers programmer. He's sentenced to prison time on a minor charge, having pretty much given up racketeering long before, but D.A. Barton MacLane (who might have been a better choice for the racketeer role) wants to pin something on him. there are a lot of enemies awaiting his arrival in prison, and a riot leads to attempt to jailbreak which takes place around the time of his parole. Reporters Dick Purcell and June Travis come to King's aid when he is framed for a prison murder, and this leads to a court case where a lot of corruption is revealed. It's a minor B movie, not really bad, but pretty forgettable, and misses the spark that Warner Brothers usually had in their gangster films. I didn't really find the prison scenes all that realistic either with a warden who acts like a strict grandfather rather than someone trying to keep a bunch of criminals in line.
Review of Jailbreak
