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Escape from Crime

Escape from Crime is a 1942 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. It has essentially the same plot as the earlier Picture Snatcher (1933).

Plot
Red O'Hara serves a prison sentence after being framed by Dude Merrill. Once he is released, he gets a job as a news photographer. Red takes a mug shot of a big talking new inmate as he does his prison job. Minutes later Red is paroled for no apparent reason and is a free man. Although the newspaper is hesitant to hire an exconvict he catches a break by taking pictures of his former gang members. This is about an excon who is confronted by his old ways catch up with him. Red takes revenge on his old gang members by taking photos of their bank robbery. ==Cast==
Cast
Richard Travis as Red O'Hara • Julie Bishop as Molly O'Hara • Jackie Gleason as Screwball Evans (as Jackie C. Gleason) • Frank Wilcox as Cornell • Rex Williams as Slim Dugan • Wade Boteler as Lieutenant 'Biff' Malone • Charles C. Wilson as Reardon (as Charles Wilson) • Paul Fix as Dude Merrill • Ruth Ford as Myrt • John Hamilton as Rafferty • Ann Corcoran as Belle Mason • Ben Taggart as Warden Kirby ==References==
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