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Big House, U.S.A. ()

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Gerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Gerry goes to prison.
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Rollo Lamar
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Gerry Barker
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Special FBI Agent James Madden
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'Machine Gun' Mason
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Alamo Smith (as Lon Chaney)
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Benny Kelly
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Emily Evans (as Randy Farr)
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Chief Ranger Will Erickson
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Robertson Lambert (as Willis B. Bouchey)
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Danny Lambert (as Peter Votrian)
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Ranger McCormick
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Ranger at Park Exit (uncredited)
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Madden's FBI Supervisor (uncredited)
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Accomplice on Fishing Boat (uncredited)
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Dipsy (uncredited)
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Tommy (uncredited)
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Convict (uncredited)
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Prison Warden Machek (uncredited)
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Inmate Who Starts Fight (uncredited)

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Howard W. Koch

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John C. Higgins ... (written by)
 
George W. George ... (story) (as George George) and
George F. Slavin ... (story) (as George Slavin)

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Aubrey Schenck ... producer

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Paul Dunlap

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Gordon Avil ... (photography)

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John F. Schreyer

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Charles D. Hall

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Hal Klein ... assistant director

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Tom Coleman ... property master

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John A. Bushelman ... sound editor
Frank Webster ... sound mixer

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Robert Comer ... lighting technician (as Robert S. Comer)
William Margulies ... operative cameraman

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John G. Stephens ... casting supervisor

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Tommy Thompson ... wardrobe

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Lester Morris ... music editor
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Plot Summary

When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Gerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he goes for help. Instead, Barker calls the father and demands $200,000 ransom. The money is delivered and Barker buries most of it. Meanwhile, the panicky boy has fallen from the tower to his death, and Barker drops the body off a cliff. The FBI, led by James Madden, capture Barker but can't convict him of kidnapping and he is given only five years for extortion and sent to Casabel Island Prison. There he is assigned a cell with Rollo Lambar, Alamo Smith, Benny Kelly and Machine Gun Mason. The FBI have now traced an affiliation between Barker and Emily Evans, a nurse at Danny's camp. The five cell-mates, led by Rollo, who plans to kill Benny and dress him in Barker's clothes to throw off the police, execute an underwater prison escape, and head north for the ransom money. Written by Les Adams

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Taglines 5 KILLER CONVICTS BREAK OUT! (original print ad - all caps) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Le Pacte des tueurs (France)
  • La justicia al acecho (Spain)
  • 逃狱大盗 (China, Mandarin title)
  • Oi pente mellothanatoi (Greece)
  • 真昼の脱獄 (Japan, Japanese title)
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  • 83 min
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Trivia There are two actors who played Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (and both share a scene together): Robert Bray in My Gun Is Quick (1957), and the most famous, that came out the same year as this movie, Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly (1955). See more »
Goofs When they're fishing, the fish Rollo has on his line when he pulls it out of the water is obviously already dead. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Stone Killer (2015). See more »
Quotes Rollo Lamar: Any of you geniuses know what "apparently" means?
Alamo Smith: "Apparently?"
Rollo Lamar: Yeah.
Benny Kelly: Yeah, it means that something that ain't, looks like it is.
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