Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.
Jackie Gleason
- Screwball Evans
- (as Jackie C. Gleason)
Charles C. Wilson
- Reardon
- (as Charles Wilson)
Murray Alper
- Fingerprint Man's Assistant
- (uncredited)
Harry Arras
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Hobart Bosworth
- Chaplain
- (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Jack Gardner
- Joe
- (uncredited)
Eddie Graham
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaHarry Arras died of a heart attack on set while shooting a scene for this film.
- GoofsRed O'Hara addresses an envelope in close-up but the envelope he licks to seal is blank.
- ConnectionsRemake of Picture Snatcher (1933)
Featured review
A lot of plot for 51 minutes
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.
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.
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- Mar 25, 2015
Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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