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Canon City is a 1948 American film noir crime film written and directed by Crane Wilbur. The drama features Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, and Whit Bissell, along with prison warden Roy Best playing himself. The film takes its name from Canon City, Colorado.
Canon City: Directed by Crane Wilbur. With Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell, Stanley Clements. Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.
- (443)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Crane Wilbur
- 1948-06-30
Canon City (1948), directed by Crane Wilbur, is based on an actual jailbreak that occurred at this maximum security compound in Colorado in 1947. Although the narrative focuses on an inmate named Sherbondy (Scott Brady) who is blackmailed by some fellow prisoners into escaping from the facility, the film seems closer to a documentary than a ...
- Crane Wilbur
- Scott Brady
As the fugitives terrorize residents of the city, taking local families hostage in their own homes, Warden Roy Best (Roy Best) devises a plan to get the prisoners back -- dead or alive. Read More...
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- Crane Wilbur
- Crime, Drama
- Scott Brady
Synopsis. CANON CITY chronicles the sensational 1927 prison break from the Colorado Territorial Prison ("Old Max"), filmed in and around the prison, Canon City, and the Royal Gorge area, with many of the extras played by locals who remembered the actual break. Twelve desperate criminals overpower guards to make their way up the Arkansas River ...
Canon City (1948) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Fact-based, shot-on-location break-out flick, part of a cycle of superb prison movies written and directed by Crane Wilbur, a silent movie actor who reinvented himself late in life as one of noir’s most unusual and underrated stylists.
