A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.
Direction
Halperin's White Zombie shadows creep into prison corridors.
Acting
Beverly Roberts sells absurd romance with absolute conviction.
Director
Victor Halperin
Beverly Roberts
Joan Wright
Robert Wilcox
Johnny Martin
Paul McVey
Jim Henderson
Ted Osborne
Ira Hanes
George Pembroke
Ernie Matthews
Stephen Chase
Dr. Robert Lee
George Lynn
Gus Barth
Wheeler Oakman
Manning
Norman Budd
The Kid
Ben Alexander
Riley
Boyd Irwin
Rutledge
Edward Earle
Charlie Blake
Dave O'Brien
Carson
Robert McKenzie
Al Garrity
Don Rowan
Big Billy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Halperin made this between White Zombie and Torture Ship, clearly needing rent money.
The tabloid reporter villain reflects 1930s anxiety about yellow journalism's real power.
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