The Escape
The Escape
Release: 1939-10-05
·Runtime: 63m
·★ 5.5
Crime
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
Matt McHugh
as Pete
Edward Norris
as Louie Peronni
Selmer Jackson
as Mr. Henley
Thomas E. Jackson
as Police Lieutenant
Scotty Beckett
as Willie Rogers
Edward Keane
as Captain of Detectives
Mary Gordon
as Neighbor
Kane Richmond
as Eddie Farrell
Jessie Arnold
as Neighbor
Ellen Drew
as Reporter
Jack Carson
as Chet Warren
Al Hill
as Lefty
Robert Lowery
as Ambulance Driver
Pat O'Malley
as Neighbor
Mark Roberts
as MIckey
Amanda Duff
as Juli Peronni
June Gale
as Annie Qualen
Henry Armetta
as Guiseppi Peronni
Leona Roberts
as Aunt Mamie Qualen
Jimmy Butler
as Jim Rogers
Aggie Herring
as Mrs. Nearny
Ivan Miller
as Police Captain
David Newell
as Reporter
Rex Downing
as Tommy Rogers
Milton Kibbee
as Neighbor
Helen Ericson
as Helen Gardner
Frank Reicher
as Dr. Shumaker
Richard Lane
as David Clifford
Stanley Blystone
as Policeman
John Harmon
as Gangster
