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Blackwell's Island (1939)
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Lee Katz (story)
Crane Wilbur (story)
Release Date:
25 March 1939 (USA) more
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In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell's Island in 1934, reporter... more | add synopsis
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Based on a true story more (4 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | John Garfield | ... | Tim Raydon |
| Rosemary Lane | ... | Mary 'Sunny' Walsh |
| Dick Purcell | ... | Terry Walsh |
| Victor Jory | ... | Commissioner Thomas MacNair |
| Stanley Fields | ... | 'Bull' Bransom |
| Morgan Conway | ... | Steve Cardigan |
| Granville Bates | ... | Prison Warden Stuart 'Stu' Granger |
| Anthony Averill | ... | Brower, a Henchman |
| Peggy Shannon | ... | Pearl Murray |
| Charley Foy | ... | Benny Farmer (as Charles Foy) |
| Norman Willis | ... | Mike Garth, a Henchman |
| Joe Cunningham | ... | Ben Rawden |
| Wade Boteler | ... | Captain Pedersen |
| William B. Davidson | ... | Defense Attorney Hempel (as William Davidson) |
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71 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Australia:PG | Finland:(Banned) (1939) | USA:Approved (PCA #4497)
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The first press screening was held at the Welfare Island Prison. more
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Featured in The John Garfield Story (2003) (TV) more
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Once jailed, he literally took it over, with the help of crooked Tammany Hall politicians, and ran more rackets then they could list or even discuss in the film (e.g. drug dealing, prostitution, etc.).
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