

You Can't Get Away with Murder
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. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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- English
- robbery
- gun
- pawnbroker
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- Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York24 Mar 1939
- Theatrical20 May 1939
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- Theatrical (limited)London23 Mar 1939
- Theatrical28 Aug 1939
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You Can't Get Away with Murder was released on 23 March 1939.
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CinemaSerf
6/22/2022
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 are incarcerated fo…
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