The Last Mile
The Season's Dramatic Thunderbolt! From the Play that Rocked the Nation!
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
- 5.5
- 1932
- Released
- 1h 15m
Preston Foster
John 'Killer' Mears, Cell 4
Howard Phillips
Richard 'Dick' Walters, Cell 5
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
Alec B. Francis
Father O'Connor
Albert J. Smith
Drake, Guard
Al Hill
Fred Mayer... Cell 3
Daniel L. Haynes
Sonny Jackson... Cell 2
Edward Van Sloan
Rabbi
Louise Carter
Mrs. Walters
Ralph Theodore
Pat Callahan... Principal KeeperJack Kennedy
Mike O'Flaherty, Guard
William Scott
Peddie... Guard
Kenneth MacDonald
Harris... Guard
Frank Sheridan
Warden Frank LewisReleased
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Reviews
Reduced to the status of being a number not a name, “Walters” (Howard Phillips) has been sentenced to death for a murder he protests that he did not commit. Into prison he goes, to share a cell with “Mears” (Preston Foster) who makes no such claims to innocence. Therefore he reckons he has little to lose when he organises a prison revolt against the hitherto fairly benign rule of it’s governor (Wa
We are all just numbers here. The Last Mile is directed by Samuel Bischoff and adapted to screenplay by Seton Miller from the John Wexley play of the same name. It stars Preston Foster, Howard Phillips, George Stone, Noel Madison and Adam Roscoe. Music is by Val Burton and cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Interesting watching this pic these days to note just how much set in stone the formula