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Director
  
James Cruze

Music director
  
Alberto Colombo

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

5/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Screenplay
  
Gordon Rigby, Eric Taylor

Language
  
English

The Wrong Road movie poster
Writer
  
Gordon Rigby
,
Eric Taylor

Release date
  
11 October 1937

Cast
  
Richard Cromwell
(Jimmy Caldwell),
Helen Mack
(Ruth Holden),
Lionel Atwill
(Mike Roberts),
Horace McMahon
(Blackie Clayton (as Horace MacMahon)),
Russ Powell
(Chief Ira Foster),
Billy Bevan
(McLean)

Similar movies
  
Argo
,
2 Guns
,
Looper
,
Valkyrie
,
The Place Beyond the Pines
,
The Lucky One

After being released from jail, a young couple (Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack) search for their stolen loot so they can start a new life.

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The Wrong Road is a 1937 American film directed by James Cruze. The film is now in the public domain.

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.

Plot summary

A young married couple (Cromwell and Mack), whose plans for their life together havent turned out as expected, decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences.

All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that theyre being trailed by an insurance investigator (Atwill) and the husbands old cellmate, who says he wants a cut of the money.

Similar Movies

Helen Mack and others appear in The Wrong Road and King of the Newsboys. Gangsters Boy (1938). Youth on Parole (1937). Dr Kildares Strange Case (1940). Power Dive (1941).

Cast

  • Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Caldwell
  • Helen Mack as Ruth Holden
  • Lionel Atwill as Mike Roberts
  • Horace McMahon as Blackie Clayton
  • Russ Powell as Chief Ira Foster
  • Billy Bevan as McLean
  • Marjorie Main as Martha Foster
  • Rex Evans as Victor J. Holbrook
  • Joseph Crehan as District Attorney
  • Arthur Hoyt as Beamish, bank teller
  • Syd Saylor as Big Hobo
  • Selmer Jackson as Judge
  • Chester Clute as Dan OFearna

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