14 Aug 1958
The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Seven Miles from Alcatraz
A helpless girl trapped between desperate cons and enemy rats in a lonely lighthouse!
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?
Top Billed Cast
James Craig Champ Larkin
Bonita Granville Anne Porter
Frank Jenks Jimbo
Cliff Edwards Stormy
George Cleveland Captain Porter
Erford Gage Paul Brenner
Tala Birell Baroness
John Banner Fritz Weinermann
Otto Reichow Max
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