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You Can't Get Away with Murder is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lewis Seiler released in USA on 20 may 1939 with Humphrey Bogart
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
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Add to a movie listYou Can't Get Away with Murder is a 1939 crime drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Gale Page. The film was directed by Lewis Seiler and features "Dead End Kid" leader Billy Halop. The movie is one of Bogart's studio B pictures filmed before his famous breakthrough in High Sierra two years later.
Alternate title for this film, Chalked Out.
Synopsis
In New York's Hell's Kitchen, young Johnny Stone (Billy Halop) goes against the advice of his sister Madge (Gale Page) and hooks up with mobster Frank Wilson (Humphrey Bogart).Actors
Humphrey Bogart
(Frank Wilson)
Gale Page
(Madge Stone)
Billy Halop
(John 'Johnny' Stone)
Henry Travers
(Pop)
John Litel
(Attorney Carey)
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