State Penitentiary is a 1950 drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring Warner Baxter (in his last film role) and Onslow Stevens. The film's prison scenes were photographed at the state penitentiary at Carson City, Nevada.[1]
State Penitentiary | |
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Directed by | Lew Landers |
Written by | Henry Edward Helseth |
Screenplay by | Howard J. Green Robert Libott Frank Burt |
Produced by | Sam Katzman |
Starring | Warner Baxter Onslow Stevens Karin Booth |
Narrated by | Leo Cleary |
Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
Edited by | James Sweeney |
Music by | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 66 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Roger Manners, a former aircraft manufacturer, is wrongly convicted of having embezzled $400,000 and is given a long prison sentence. His wife Shirley tries to prove his innocence.[2] Manners escapes, hoping to track down the real culprit, his former partner Stanley Brown.[3]
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