A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
Cast
George Bancroft
Thunderbolt Jim Lang
Fay Wray
Ritzy
Richard Arlen
Bob Moran
Tully Marshall
Warden
Eugenie Besserer
Mrs. Moran
James Spottswood
'Snapper' O'Shea
Fred Kohler
'Bad Al' Friedberg
Robert Elliott
Prison chaplain
E.H. Calvert
Dist. Atty. McKay
George Irving
Mr. Corwin
Mike Donlin
Kentucky Sampson
S.S. Stewart
Convict
William L. Thorne
Police Inspector
Theresa Harris
Singer
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Bit Role
Louise Beavers
Black Cat Cafe Patron (uncredited)
Crew
Recommendations
view all
The Damned Don't Cry
The Face Behind the Mask
Plunder Road
Johnny O'Clock
The Web
The Locket
The Blue Gardenia
Framed
Each Dawn I Die
5 Against the House
Nightfall
The Glass Key
They Made Me a Fugitive
M
They Live by Night
They Won't Believe Me
The Dark Past
Another Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man
The Quiller Memorandum