San Quentin prison inmate Arnie Judlow asks his twin brother Bill and his wife Ruth to assist him in a daring escape plan.San Quentin prison inmate Arnie Judlow asks his twin brother Bill and his wife Ruth to assist him in a daring escape plan.San Quentin prison inmate Arnie Judlow asks his twin brother Bill and his wife Ruth to assist him in a daring escape plan.
Timothy Carey
- Frenchy - Arnie's Cell Mate
- (uncredited)
John Cliff
- Officer
- (uncredited)
John Close
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Joe Conley
- Convict
- (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
- Assistant Warden
- (uncredited)
Danny Davenport
- Inmate
- (uncredited)
Burt Douglas
- Dave
- (uncredited)
Bill Erwin
- Bank Teller
- (uncredited)
Joel Fluellen
- Ashlow - Convict
- (uncredited)
Michael Galloway
- Al Webson
- (uncredited)
Duane Grey
- Patrolman
- (uncredited)
Paul Keast
- Captain of Guards
- (uncredited)
Donna Martell
- Lois
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn one scene from inside Bill's cell, a cat passes outside. San Quentin has a long history of feral cats roaming the prison, getting in through drainage and sewer pipes. They are generally tolerated as they keep the rodent population down.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits are stamped on the screen by a hand.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Impossible Itself (2010)
Featured review
PALANCE DOING DOUBLE DUTY...!
Jack Palance does double duty (as twins) in this 1957 prison break caper. Palance is both the older brother outside San Quentin & the younger on the inside who hopes to spring him especially since a guard who was thrown off a balcony by him may be coming out of the hospital to make a positive ID. Palance, on the outside, teams up w/his bro's wife, played Barbara Lang, to execute a hugely intricate plot to extricate him (one scheme has Palance breaking into the prison where he can switch places w/his bro while he spends a night digging a shallow grave for himself, complete w/a pipe to breathe through) but the edges of their plan start to go off the rails when the apartment they take in the city to be near the prison abuts w/one of the prison guards, played by Harold J. Stone, who is not too subtle putting the eyes on Lang's comely figure. Lang also starts to have her doubts about her marriage to the younger (it was because of an act of jealousy which put him in prison) as her attentions start to drift toward the older. Will the plan go off w/o a hitch? Pretty solid going for the most part as the story (based on a yarn by Jack Finney who gave us Invasion of the Body Snatchers) details keep becoming more intriguing as the plan starts to flesh itself out but other than some barebones handling of the twins in the same frame & some of the escape highlights (Palance scaling the prison wall at night in full view of anybody) a little farfetched, the film is entertaining as heck & worth the time. Also starring Timothy Carey & Joe Turkel (both of whom would appear the same year in Kubrick's Paths of Glory) as cons while Edward Platt (Chief from Get Smart) plays the warden.
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- masonfisk
- Mar 15, 2021
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- Also known as
- The House of Numbers
- Filming locations
- San Quentin, California, USA(house overlooking prison)
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- Budget
- $1,008,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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