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Released July 28, 1939
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Columbia Pictures
63 min. (Feature Film)

State Police detective Norman Craig and his partner go undercover in the penetentiary, investigating inmate suspects for an unsolved, six-month-old bank robbery. Craig uses the identity of a deceased inmate, Red Murray, and things go horribly wrong when his undercover partner is murdered in his cell. Complications abound when Sheila Murray arrives to visit her "brother," and she finds herself in the web of undercover deception. When Craig plays the robbery suspects against each other to find his partner's killer, he and Sheila are unexpectedly caught up in a prison break plot.

Shemp Howard appears briefly in a couple scenes as a mess hall trustee.

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Avg. Rating: [7.50/10]
 
BEHIND PRISON GATES on IMDb

Brian Donlevy
Norman Craig / 'Red Murray'

Jacqueline Wells
Sheila Murray

Joseph A. Crehan
Warden O'Neil

Paul Fix
Petey Ryan

George Lloyd
Marty Conroy

Dick Curtis
Captain Simmons

Richard Fiske
Agent Lyman

George Anderson
State Atty. Gen. Matthews

Al Ferguson
Oliver Thorsen / 'Two Gun Kelly'

Abe Reynolds
Prusiber

Ernie Adams
Voight, warden's trustee

George McKay
Sid Walsh, convict

George C. Pearce
Dad Prentis, convict

Lester Dorr
Floyd, convict

Al Hill
Betts, convict

Irving Bacon
Convict in prison yard

Joe Palma
Convict in prison yard

John Tyrrell
Martin, print shop convict

Shemp Howard
Mess hall trustee

Dick Botiller
Graves, convict in escape attempt

Edmund Cobb
Convict in escape attempt

Kit Guard
Convict

Jack Evans
Convict

Earle D. Bunn
Machine gunner tower guard

Charles Hamilton
Parker, print shop guard

Ralph Dunn
Evans, prison guard

Ky Robinson
Slade, prison guard

Harry Strang
Hastings, prison guard

James Craig
Jenkins, prison guard

Charles McMurphy
Prison guard

Ethan Laidlaw
Prison guard

Douglas Williams
Prison guard

Al Herman
Prison guard

Ed Brady
Prison guard


Arthur T. Horman
Original Screenplay

Leslie T. White
Original Screenplay

Allen G. Siegler
Director of Photography

Richard Fantl
Film Editor

Morris W. Stoloff
Musical Director


















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