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Behind Prison Gates 1939 1h 3m Crime Drama List Reviews An agent (Brian Donlevy) for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
- Crime, Drama
- Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan
- Charles Barton
What a surprise. It's another prison movie, yes, but an efficient one. I won't repeat the plot line, some one has done it for me. But Brian Donlevy gives here a very effective performance as an undercover cop trying to find criminals.
Behind Prison Gates is a 1939 American crime film directed by Charles Barton and written by Arthur T. Horman and Leslie T. White. The film stars Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan, Paul Fix, George Lloyd and Dick Curtis. The film was released on July 28, 1939, by Columbia Pictures.
Det. Norman Craig assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police are ...
In the film, Donlevy plays Norman Craig, a detective undercover in a tough prison, hoping to find evidence that the men the DA wants to accuse of a recent bank robbery did, in fact, commit the crime. The movie opens with a failed prison break, one that ends with Craig's undercover partner dead of a bullet to the head.
- Charles Barton
- Columbia Pictures
Seeking to uncover the location where a pair of bank robbers and police killers have hidden their stolen loot, Norman Craig, an agent in the service of the State's Attorney's office, adopts the name of deceased criminal Red Murray and incarcerates himself behind prison gates.
With Brian Donlevy, Julie Bishop, Joseph Crehan, Paul Fix. Det. Norman Craig assumes the identity of a dead bank robber (killed in a police shoot out), Red Murray, so he can infiltrate the prison and find three other bank robbers that the police are looking for.
