Criminals aboard a train to the infamous penitentiary plot an escape, and receive outside help in their attempt.
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Don Barry as Doug Forbes (as Donald Barry)
Janet Martin as Beatrice
William Phipps as Tommy Calligan
Roy Barcroft as Guard Grady
June Storey as Virginia Marley
Jane Darwell as Aunt Ella
Milburn Stone as Bart Kanin
Chester Clute as Conductor Yelvington
Ralph Dunn as U.S. Marshal Mark Stevens
Richard Irving as Andy Anders
John Alvin as Nick
Marc Krah as Slip Mahaffey
Denver Pyle as Hutch Hutchins
Iron Eyes Cody as Geronimo
Dave Anderson as Train Porter (uncredited)
Michael Carr as Marty Mason
Victor B. Appel Sound
Lou Brock Associate Producer
Reggie Lanning Director of Photography
George Milo Set Decoration
Harold Minter Editor
Adele Palmer Costume Design
John McCarthy Jr. Set Decoration
Arthur J. Vitarelli Assistant Director
Fred A. Ritter Art Direction
Philip Ford Director
Gerald Geraghty Screenplay
United States 28 June 1948
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