Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)
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Cell 2455 Death Row is based on the autobiography of condemned prisoner and "jailhouse lawyer" Caryl Chessman. William Campbell plays the Chessman counterpart, here renamed Whit. A seriously disturbed misfit, Whit begins a life of crime, culminating in sexual assault as the "Lover's Lane Bandit." Condemned to the gas chamber at San Quentin, Whit spends six years fighting his sentence, gradually winning the support and sometimes the respect of various legal experts. The film ends in 1955 (the year of its production), some five years before Caryl Chessman's ultimate execution; accordingly, the film's "open-ended" finale has been removed from many TV prints. A more thorough and incisive study of the Chessman case was offered in the made-for-TV movie Kill Me If You Can, which starred Alan Alda. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- William Campbell - Whit
- Kathryn Grant - Jo-Anne
- Vince Edwards - Hamilton
- Bart Bradley - Whit as a Young Boy
- Buck Kartalian - Monk
- Thom Carney - Hatcheck Charlie
- Howard Wright - Judge
- Jimmy Murphy - Sonny
- Wayne Taylor - Skipper Adams
- Tyler MacDuff - Nugent
- Marian Carr - Doll
- Harvey Stephens - Warden
- Allen Nourse - Serl
- Paul Dubov - Al
- Eleanor Audley - Blanche
- Joe Forte - Lawyer
- Glenn Gordon - Superior Guard
- Jerry Mickelsen - Tom
- Diane DeLaire - Hallie
- Director(s):
- Fred Sears
- Writer(s):
- Jack de Witt
- Producer(s):
- Wallace MacDonald
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