Joe Collins, an inmate of Westgate prison, schemes with a group of convicts to breakout. He's intent on reaching his love, who does not know he's in prison but will not have a lifesaving operation until he's at her side. The escape plan goes awry when Capt. Munsey, the prison guard and Joe's enemy, gets a tip-off and greets them in a machine-gun shoot out.

DVD Features:

Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 - English
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Alain Silver, James Ursini
Interview - Paul Mason
Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos

Burt Lancaster: American Actor
Hume Cronyn: Actor/Screenwriter, Married Jessica Tandy
Charles Bickford: American Actor
Yvonne De Carlo: Actress, THE MUNSTERS, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Ann Blyth: American Actress
Ella Raines: American Actress/40s-50s
Anita Colby: CHARACTER ACTRESS/MODEL

Jules Dassin: American Director/Blacklisted, RIFIFI (1954), TOPKAPI (1964)

Mark Hellinger: 

Miklos Rozsa: Hollywood Composer, THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940), BEN-HUR (1959)

Rating: B
"...[Hume Cronyn's] most memorable screen role..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
"It's a stark, nihilistic anti-fascist allegory built around the repellent figure of Hume Cronyn's slipper, sadistic warden and the young Burt Lancaster's anguished grace."