Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1942)
A helpless girl trapped between desperate cons and enemy rats in a lonely lighthouse!
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?
- Date of release
- 1942-11-18
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Thriller, Action
- Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Casting
- James Craig — Champ Larkin
- Bonita Granville — Anne Porter
- Frank Jenks — Jimbo
- George Cleveland — "Cap" Porter
- Cliff Edwards — Stormy
- Erford Gage — Paul Brenner
- Tala Birell — Baroness
- John Banner — Fritz
- Otto Reichow — Max
- Bruce Edwards — HQ Radioman Nick
- Richard Martin — HQ De-coder
- Ann Summers — Nazi Hostess
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