The Wrong Road
{{short description|1937 film by James Cruze}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Wrong Road
| image = The Wrong Road FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption =
| director = James Cruze
| producer = Colbert Clark
| writer = Gordon Rigby (screenplay and story)
Eric Taylor (writer)
| narrator =
| starring = Richard Cromwell
Helen Mack
Lionel Atwill
| music = Alberto Colombo
| cinematography = Ernest Miller
| editing = William Morgan
| distributor = Republic Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1937|10|11}}
| runtime = 62 minutes
53 minutes (U.S. edited version for television)
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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The Wrong Road is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, and Lionel Atwill. The film is now in the public domain.
Plot
A young unmarried couple (Cromwell and Mack), whose plans for their life together have not turned out as expected, decide to steal $100,000 from the bank where the boyfriend works, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their prison sentences.
All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator (Atwill), who has a soft spot for the couple and would like to see them go straight, and the boyfriend's old cellmate, who wants a cut of the money.
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 O'Fearna
External links
{{commons category|The Wrong Road}}
- {{IMDb title|id=0029799|title=The Wrong Road}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=wrong_road|name=The Wrong Road}}
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Category:1937 crime drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American crime drama films
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:Films about bank robbery
Category:Films directed by James Cruze
Category:Republic Pictures films
Category:English-language crime drama films
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