TMDb Rating
4.5/10
4 verified votes
Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)
ThrillerAction
62 min
"A helpless girl trapped between desperate cons and enemy rats in a lonely lighthouse!"
Plot Summary
After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt which lands them on a tiny lighthouse island, where they take over. The five inhabitants are stymied in their efforts to summon aid. But the island also figures in the schemes of a big Nazi spy ring; which will win out, the gangsters' greed or their patriotism?
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Keywords to include
ThrillerActionEdward DmytrykJames CraigBonita Granville1942
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Top Cast
James CraigBonita GranvilleFrank JenksGeorge ClevelandCliff Edwards
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