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Cell 2455, Death Row (1955) - * Whit Whittier: [narrating] What stage does a wayward boy turn into a delinquent? I guess you don't suddenly 'turn' - you 'curve' in.
With William Campbell, R. Wright Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant. Whit, condemned and awaiting execution, reviews the events of his life that has brought him to Cell 2455 on San Quentin's Death Row, a story he had told in a autobiography that became a sensational best-seller.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Fred F. Sears
- 1955-04-19
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The double death sentence held. They brought me here to death row, six years ago. Six years in death row. Six years in a living coffin. A coffin 10 1/2 feet long, 4 1/2 feet wide, my home, my office, fighting the law with the law, searching for legal miracles, writs, stays, appeal after appeal Four times to the Supreme Court of The United States.
Running time. 77 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Cell 2455, Death Row is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Fred F. Sears and starring William Campbell and Robert Wright Campbell. It is based on the 1954 book of the same name .
Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story is a 1954 memoir that is the first of four books written on death row by convicted robber, rapist and kidnapper Caryl Chessman (27 May 1921 – 2 May 1960). Sentenced to death in 1948 under California 's Little Lindbergh Law, Chessman became internationally famous for waging a legal battle to ...
Oct 22, 2007 · Caryl Chessman just had one of those names. Like murdered Kew Gardens bartender Kitty Genovese, Chappaquiddick drowning victim Mary Jo Kopechne and Right to Die poster child Karen Ann Quinlan, Death Row notable Caryl Chessman's catchy moniker, while lacking the instant recognition factor of a Lee Harvey Oswald or a Sharon Tate, holds talismanic properties for those born before the advent of ...
