62 minutes of 1939 chaos: framed footballer seeks truth in a world that moved on without him.
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
Acting
Sidney Blackmer's smug villainy—dude was BORN to wear a suit.
Direction
Hillyer crams a feature plot into 62 minutes like he's racing the sun.
Production
Monogram Pictures magic: maximum story, minimum budget.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Robert Kent
Dave Tyler
Anne Nagel
Julie Warren
Sidney Blackmer
Gregory Warren
Victor Kilian
C.W. Bennett
Norman Willis
Joe Russell
Maude Eburne
Mrs. Magruder
Ben Alexander
Jeff Palmer
Pat Flaherty
Sniffy Johnson
Carleton Young
Pete Jennings
George Cleveland
Gas Station Attendant
Harry Strang
Tony Lynch
Howard Hickman
Prison Warden
Joan Barclay
Elaine
Lester Dorr
Bank Teller
Jane Keckley
Hawkins' Landlady
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lambert Hillyer directed over 160 films, mostly B-pictures like this, making him one of Hollywood's most prolific invisible craftsmen.
Wrongful conviction films exploded in the 1930s as audiences grappled with Depression-era distrust of institutions—this is poverty row's gritty contribution to that conversation.
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