Youthful tough Johnny Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.
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Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Humphrey Bogart | ... | Frank Wilson | |
| Gale Page | ... | Madge Stone | |
| Billy Halop | ... | Johnnie Stone | |
| John Litel | ... | Attorney Carey | |
| Henry Travers | ... | Pop | |
| Harvey Stephens | ... | Fred Burke | |
| Harold Huber | ... | Scappa | |
| Joe Sawyer | ... | Red | |
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Joe Downing | ... | Smitty |
| George E. Stone | ... | Toad | |
| Joe King | ... | Principal Keeper (as Joseph King) | |
| Joseph Crehan | ... | Warden | |
| John Ridgely | ... | Gas Station Attendant | |
| Herbert Rawlinson | ... | District Attorney | |
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Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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pawnbroker | murder | crime wave | prison life | reference to gettysburg address |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 May 1939 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Chalked Out See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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1.37 : 1
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[Pointedly]
Frank Wilson: Good night, Johnny!
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In Invisible Stripes (1939) Humphrey Bogart and Lee Patrick are seen leaving a theater showing "You Can't Get Away With Murder". See more »Goofs
When Frank returns to his apartment after the pawn shop robbery, a moving shadow of the boom microphone is briefly visible on the door frame above his head. See more »Quotes
Frank Wilson: Maybe this'll help you out. There's only two guys know who did the shootin' and one of them's dead, and the other one's gonna be if he don't keep his trap shut...[Pointedly]
Frank Wilson: Good night, Johnny!
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To say that Humphry Bogart paid his dues is an understatement. From the time he joined Warner Bros. until his breakthrough role in "High Sierra," he was the studio's most reliable scowling, snarling double-crossing hood. Here's he's a penny-ante crook who enlists Billy Halop to join him in a quick stick-up. The pair are quickly caught and packed off to prison where Halop has continual bouts of conscience and Bogart masterminds an escape. If that sounds familiar, the plot -- and variations on same -- were standard Warner Bros. fare, especially in the 1930s. Bogart manages to pack a lot of charisma into a stereotype and Halop's ex-Dead End performance is pretty good, as well. But the movie itself doesn't veer too far from an all-too-familiar formula.