Escape from Crime

Richard Travis and Julie Bishop star in a short B, "Escape from Crime," a Warners film from 1942.

Travis plays a parolee who gets photos of a bank robbery and parlays it into a job on a newspaper. He later gets into trouble when his boss wants him to worm his way into the prison and photograph the execution of one of his old crime buddies.

It's very hard to judge these films - they were probably made in an afternoon. You'll see lots of familiar faces, as most if not all of these actors later went on to work in television.

Jackie Gleason has a tiny role. Needless to say, he made it bigger than all of them.

"Escape from Crime" moves fast and has a convoluted plot.