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The Last Mile is a french film of genre Drama directed by Samuel Bischoff released in USA on 17 august 1932 with Preston Foster

The Last Mile (1932)

The Last Mile
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Released in USA 17 august 1932
Length 1h15
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama
Rating61% 3.0955553.0955553.0955553.0955553.095555

The Last Mile is a 1932 American film directed by Samuel Bischoff and starring Howard Phillips and Preston Foster.
The picture is based on John Wexley's 1930 Broadway play, The Last Mile. In 1959 the play was adapted a second time into a film of the same name starring Mickey Rooney.

Synopsis

The movie presents the life in a prison where men are on death row. Some of them are wrongfully accused and convicted, there is nothing else in their future but the electric chair.

Actors

Preston Foster

(John 'Killer' Mears, Cell 4)George E. Stone

(Joe Berg, Cell 1)Noel Madison

(D'Amoro, Cell 6)Alan Roscoe

(Kirby... Cell 7 (as Allan Roscoe))Paul Fix

(Eddie Werner... Cell 8)
And :
Al Hill
Daniel L. Haynes
Frank Sheridan
Alec B. Francis
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