****SPOILERS**** It's when gas station owner Dick Walters, Howard Philips,was caught with a smoking gun in his hands after his partner in the station Max Kruger, Max Wagner, was found shot to death by the police it was an open and shut case against Dick. As we all saw Max was in fact shot by two hold up men with his own, as well as Dick's, gun who fled the scene leaving Dick, who showed up later, holding both the bag and murder weapon! While on death row waiting to be executed by the state Dick can only hope for a governors pardon and a second trail to prove his innocence. But as we and Dick soon find out there's a jail brake being planned by Inmate #4 the mad dog killer as well as the self proclaimed "King of Death Row" John "Killer" Mears, Preston Forster, that's to change everything.
Tension packed and pre watered down Hayes Commission code crime movie that pulls no punches in its violence as well as not spearing no one innocent or guilty in who ends up getting knocked off. "Killer" Mears knowing that he has about a chance as a snowball in hell to survive ends up taking everyone, prison guards as well as fellow inmates, along with him as hostages. Knowing that if he survives he'll only end up being helplessly strapped into the state electric chair anyway and zapped with 2,500 volts of electricity he has really nothing to lose in a major shoot out. At least this time around he'll go down frighting and take, which he does, as many of those who plan to do him in along with him.
***SPOILERS*** It's later that it's found out that Dick was in fact innocent of the crime that he was convicted of and the governor at the last minute pardoned him while the prison is still under siege! It's then that "Killer" Mears got a change of heart and decided to turn himself in without any farther bloodshed. With the prison surrounded by the state national guard and them planning to storm death row "Killer" Mears does the only good deed that he ever did in his short crime ridden life! That by exposing himself to national guard sharp shooters he took a bullet that ended the bloody siege and thus prevented Dick from getting killed as well. Re-made in 1959 with former Hollywood's freckled faced all-American boy Mickey Rooney in the leading role as as the grown up mad dog "Killer "Mears!
Tension packed and pre watered down Hayes Commission code crime movie that pulls no punches in its violence as well as not spearing no one innocent or guilty in who ends up getting knocked off. "Killer" Mears knowing that he has about a chance as a snowball in hell to survive ends up taking everyone, prison guards as well as fellow inmates, along with him as hostages. Knowing that if he survives he'll only end up being helplessly strapped into the state electric chair anyway and zapped with 2,500 volts of electricity he has really nothing to lose in a major shoot out. At least this time around he'll go down frighting and take, which he does, as many of those who plan to do him in along with him.
***SPOILERS*** It's later that it's found out that Dick was in fact innocent of the crime that he was convicted of and the governor at the last minute pardoned him while the prison is still under siege! It's then that "Killer" Mears got a change of heart and decided to turn himself in without any farther bloodshed. With the prison surrounded by the state national guard and them planning to storm death row "Killer" Mears does the only good deed that he ever did in his short crime ridden life! That by exposing himself to national guard sharp shooters he took a bullet that ended the bloody siege and thus prevented Dick from getting killed as well. Re-made in 1959 with former Hollywood's freckled faced all-American boy Mickey Rooney in the leading role as as the grown up mad dog "Killer "Mears!