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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| 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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Pop, Sing Sing Librarian: What I want is one I can see YOUR face in.
[Sam laughs]
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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
Sam: [after shining his shoes] There you are, Pop. There's one you can see your face in.Pop, Sing Sing Librarian: What I want is one I can see YOUR face in.
[Sam laughs]
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Before superstardom Humphrey Bogart took many of these "mugg" parts before exploding on the scene in "High Sierra". In this film Bogart plays a small time hood named Frank Wilson whom is followed by Johnny {aka Leader of the Dead End Kids featured in other early Bogart movies}. Johnny is a teenager heading down the wrong path and gets into big trouble when Frank murders someone at a botched heist job. The real trouble for Johnny is that Frank frames the murder on someone near and dear to Johnny. The two hoods end up in prison after accepting charges on another crime to beat the murder rap. While at Sing Sing prison the guilt starts to get to Johnny and Frank doesn't like it. Will Bogie get away with murder? Not a classic movie by any stretch, but worth checking out, especially Bogart fans.