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You Can't Get Away with Murder: Directed by Lewis Seiler. With Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel. Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Lewis Seiler
- 1939-05-20
You Can't Get Away with Murder is a 1939 crime drama directed by Lewis Seiler, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gale Page, and featuring "Dead End Kid" leader Billy Halop. The film is from Bogart's period of being cast in B pictures by Warner Bros., before his breakthrough as a leading man in High Sierra two years later.
Seasoned gangster Frank Wilson (Humphrey Bogart) is schooling the naive young Johnny Stone (Billy Halop) in the ways of crime. Initially, their small-time...
- Crime, Drama
- Humphrey Bogart
- Lewis Seiler
Mar 2, 2012 · Based on the play "Chalked Out" by Warden Lewis E. Lawes and Jonathan Finn, You Can't Get Away With Murder tells the grim tale of a young punk taken in by the glamorous gangster life, only...
- 2 min
- 4.5K
- Warner Bros. Classics
Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.
Directed by Lewis Seiler. AMERICA’S TWO-FISTER ANSWER to the Gun-Mad Rats Who Rule the Underworld! 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.
When a botched pawn shop robbery results in the murder of the owner, Wilson plants Johnny's gun at the scene. But Johnny's gun was "borrowed" from his sister's boyfriend, cop Fred Burke (Harvey Stephens), so now Burke is framed for the robbery and the murder.
