The Escape

SMASHING DRAMA of the city streets...thousands fighting...for survival!

The Escape — Plot

An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.

• Release date
• October 5, 1939
• Runtime
• 63 min
• Genres
• Crime, Drama
• Director
• Ricardo Cortez

The Escape — Cast

Kane Richmond Eddie Farrell Amanda Duff Juli Peronni June Gale Annie Qualen Edward Norris Louie Peronni Henry Armetta Guiseppi Peronni Frank Reicher Dr. Shumaker Scotty Beckett Willie Rogers Leona Roberts Aunt Mamie Qualen