You Can't Get Away with Murder

1939 PG-13 1h 29m

5.8 / 10 24

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5.8/10

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Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

Director Lewis Seiler

Writers

Robert Buckner Don Ryan Kenneth Gamet

Stars

Humphrey Bogart Gale Page Billy Halop

Gas Station Proprietor

Herbert Rawlinson

District Attorney

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Sam (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey

Tourist on Boat (uncredited)

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Edwin Brian

Billiards Observer (uncredited)

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Frankie Burke

Billiards Player (uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Attacked Keeper (uncredited)

Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

Tom Dugan

'Lock' Man Inventor (uncredited)

Edgar Edwards

Trainer (uncredited)

Frank Faylen

Boat Tour Guide (uncredited)

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Jack A. Goodrich

Stenographer (uncredited)

John Harron

Convict Remaining in Cell (uncredited)

Robert Homans

Keeper Burns (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Keeper Collins (uncredited)

Jack Mower

Keeper Monahan (uncredited)

Robert Emmett O'Connor

First Detective (uncredited)

George Offerman, Jr.

Billiards Player (uncredited)

Garry Owen

Lock Man Inventor (uncredited)

Emory Parnell

Second Detective (uncredited)

Chapin Loan Co. Pawnbroker (uncredited)

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George Taylor

Prisoner (uncredited)

Tom Wilson

Pool Hall Proprietor (uncredited)

Drama Crime

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Geronimo1967 22 Jun 2022

6/10

Even though the star of the piece was Humphrey Bogart, the best performance here belongs to the young Billy Halop ("Johnnie") who falls in with petty criminal "Wilson" (Bogart). The latter man pinches a gun from the younger man's soon-to-be brother in law, and when it is used in a killing, it's the fiancé "Fred" (Harvey Stephens) who faces the chair... Shortly afterwards, our two aspiring hoodlums...