Movies: Prison escape

An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder....

Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his br...

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce....

John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, Gray's wif...

Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels he has nothing to lose. Gruber intends to get his robbery loot, which his father, Curly, has success...

A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War....

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discov...

Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them....

An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet....

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Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him....

Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Co...

A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed....

A Father on deathrow escapes prison to see his Daughter and Grandson one last time....

A short directed by Diederik Van Rooijen....

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police....

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she d...

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather....

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accident...

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revolution....