San Quentin (1946 film)

San Quentin
Directed by	Gordon Douglas
Written by	Arthur A. Ross
Starring	Lawrence Tierney Barton MacLane
Cinematography	Frank Redman
Edited by	Marvin Coil
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	December 8, 1946 (1946-12-08) ( Premiere-Boston)^[1] December 17, 1946 (1946-12-17) (U.S. )^[1]
Running time	66 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

San Quentin is a 1946 American film directed by Gordon Douglas.

The warden of San Quentin State Prison takes three of his best-behaved model prisoners to a press event in San Francisco, but Nick Taylor (Barton MacLane) escapes en route. The warden enlists an old enemy of Taylor's, Jim Roland (Lawrence Tierney), to bring him back to justice. The film comes with a prologue with former Sing Sing warden Lewis E. Lawes advocating the inmates' Mutual Welfare League.

Cast

Lawrence Tierney as Jim Roland
Barton MacLane as Nick Taylor
Marian Carr as Betty Richards
Harry Shannon as Warden Kelly
Carol Forman as Ruthie
Joe Devlin as 'Broadway' Johnson
Tom Keene as Hal Schaeffer
Tony Barrett as Steve Marlowe
Lee Bonnell as Joe Carzoni
Robert Clarke as Tommy North
Raymond Burr as Jeff Torrance
unbilled players include: Byron Foulger, Selmer Jackson and Herbert Rawlinson

References

1 2 "San Quentin: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 30, 2014.

External links

Films directed by Gordon Douglas

General Spanky (1936)
Zenobia (1939)
Saps at Sea (1940)
Broadway Limited (1941)
The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943)
Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
A Night of Adventure (1944)
Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Girl Rush (1944)
The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
First Yank into Tokyo (1945)
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
San Quentin (1946)
If You Knew Susie (1948)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
The Nevadan (1950)
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
Mara Maru (1952)
The Charge at Feather River (1953)
So This Is Love (1953)
Them! (1954)
Young at Heart (1954)
The McConnell Story (1955)
Bombers B-52 (1957)
Fort Dobbs (1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)
Up Periscope (1959)
Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961)
Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Claudelle Inglish (1961)
Follow That Dream (1962)
Call Me Bwana (1963)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Rio Conchos (1964)
Sylvia (1965)
Harlow (1965)
Stagecoach (1966)
Way...Way Out (1966)
In Like Flint (1967)
Chuka (1967)
Tony Rome (1967)
The Detective (1968)
Lady in Cement (1968)
Skullduggery (1970)
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
Barquero (1970)
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Nevada Smith (1975)
Viva Knievel! (1977)

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