You Can't Get Away with Murder

You Can't Get Away with Murder

89 mins | Drama, Crime | March 23, 1939

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.

You Can't Get Away with Murder

89 mins | Drama, Crime | March 23, 1939

You Can't Get Away with Murder
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.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures
Original title You Can't Get Away with Murder
Directors Lewis Seiler
Writers Jonathan Finn, Don Ryan, Lewis E. Lawes, Kenneth Gamet, Robert Buckner

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

as Frank Wilson

Gale Page

as Madge Stone

Billy Halop

as John 'Johnny' Stone

John Litel

as Attorney Carey

Henry Travers

as Pop

Harvey Stephens

as Fred Burke

Harold Huber

as Scappa

Joe Sawyer

as Red

Joe Downing

as Smitty

George E. Stone

as Toad

Joe King

as Prison Guard

Joseph Crehan

as Warden of Sing Sing

John Ridgely

as Gas Station Proprietor

Herbert Rawlinson

as District Attorney

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

as Sam (uncredited)

Tom Dugan

as 'Lock' Man - Inventor (uncredited)

Frank Faylen

as Boat Tour Guide (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

as Keeper Collins (uncredited)