Black Tuesday

Black Tuesday

6.2IMDb Score
Released:1954-12-31
Duration:80 min
Director:Hugo Fregonese
Actors:Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens
Production:Robert Goldstein Productions

Overview:

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

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