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Release Date: 1948

Cast: Stanley Clements, Whit Bissell, DeForest Kelley, Jeff Corey, Ralph Byrd, Scott Brady

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Escape Film, Film Noir, Action, Crime, Action/Adventure

Canon City (1948) is an American film noir written and directed by Crane Wilbur. The drama features Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell and others. This account of a violent prison break is a semi-documentary opens with a newsreel type tour of the prison. Led by Carl Schwartzmiller (Jeff Corey), 12 convicts plan their escape and prisoner Jim Sherbondy (Scott Brady) is reluctant to go along with the group. The film is based on a prison break that occurred at the Colorado State Penitentiary at Cañon City, Colorado in December 1947. New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote,... MORE

Canon City (1948) is an American film noir written and directed by Crane Wilbur. The drama features Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell and others. This account of a violent prison break is a semi-documentary opens with a newsreel type tour of the prison. Led by Carl Schwartzmiller (Jeff Corey), 12 convicts plan their escape and prisoner Jim Sherbondy (Scott Brady) is reluctant to go along with the group. The film is based on a prison break that occurred at the Colorado State Penitentiary at Cañon City, Colorado in December 1947. New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, "Another convincing demonstration that crime, while it may not 'pay,' can be turned to profitable uses by the makers of action films is given by Canon City, a tough semi-documentary job about a prison break in Colorado ... Crane Wilbur has held to a realistic line for much of the prison action and in some of the outside episodes. His actors—especially Jeff Corey, who plays the leader of the 'break'—are generally tough, convincing fellows with nothing to recommend in charm. And the movement is swift and dynamic, not unlikely in such affairs." Critic Dennis Schwartz said of the film, "An unspectacular true LESS