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Condemned to share the fate of man he'd doomed!
5.8 / 10 IMDb November 17, 1936 1h 1m
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Director
Runtime
1h 1m
Release Date
November 17, 1936
Genre
Crime, Romance, Drama, Thriller
Status
Released
Languages
English
Country
United States of America
Writers
Producers
Cast
Paul Kelly
as Douglas Goodwin
Marsha Hunt
as Claire Patterson
Kent Taylor
as Jerry Welch
Robert Cummings
as Jimmy Ellis
Harry Carey
as Sen. Nash
Bernadene Hayes
as Muriel Goodwin
Hilda Vaughn
as Muriel's Maid
Thomas E. Jackson
as Lead Investigator Logan
DeWitt Jennings
as Prison Warden
Fred Kohler
as Curly-haired Convict
Ralf Harolde
as Lean, Angry Convict
Joe Sawyer
as Father Regan, chaplain
Paul Fix
as "Twitchy" Burke, the killer thief
Jonathan Hale
as Special Prosecutor
Sam Flint
as District Attorney Benton
John Carroll
as Dominic Petrelli, convict
Sammee Tong
as Chinese-American Convict
Russell Hicks
as Vociferous Pro-Capital Punishment Senator
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Frederick Burton
as The Governor
Rollo Lloyd
as Dr. Simms
Production Companies
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