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You Can't Get Away with Murder

Johnnie Stone, a young and impressionable individual, becomes entangled in a life of crime under the influence of the cunning Frank Wilson, who manipulates him into committing robbery and murder with a stolen gun.

In this gripping crime drama, a young man named Johnnie is mentored by a petty thief named Frank Wilson, who teaches him the ways of crime. However, when Wilson kills a pawnbroker using a stolen gun belonging to Johnnie's sister's fiancé, Fred Burke, Burke is sentenced to death at Sing Sing's infamous "death house". Despite being imprisoned alongside Wilson, Johnnie is pressured to keep silent about the crime, even as their own fate hangs in the balance.

Info about You Can't Get Away with Murder

Studio(s): First National Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

Originally Released: United States, May 20, 1939

Production Country: United States

Genres:Crime, Drama, Film-Noir