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]

Plot summary

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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]

Cast

• Warner Baxter as Roger Manners
• Onslow Stevens as Richard Evans
• Karin Booth as Shirley Manners
• Robert Shayne as Stanley Brown
• Richard Benedict as Mike Gavin
• Brett King as Al 'Kid' Beaumont
• John Bleifer as Jailbreak Jimmy
• Leo Cleary as Warden-Narrator (as Leo T. Cleary)
• Rick Vallin as Tom – Prison Guard
• Rusty Wescoatt as 'Flash' Russell – Convict
• William Fawcett as Bill Costello – Convict
• John Hart as 'Sandy' O'Hara – Convict
• Jack Ingram as Construction Gang Guard

References

External links

• State Penitentiary at IMDb
• State Penitentiary at AllMovie
• State Penitentiary at the TCM Movie Database

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