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Cell 2455, Death Row
Directed by Fred F. Sears
Screenplay by Jack DeWitt
Based on Cell 2455, Death Row
by Caryl Chessman
Produced by Wallace MacDonald
Starring William Campbell
Robert Campbell
CinematographyFred Jackman Jr.
Edited by Henry Batista
Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 19, 1955 (1955-04-19)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot

A death row inmate uses his prison-law studies to fight for his life.

Cast

Production

Columbia Pictures acquired the rights to Caryl Chessman's book Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story for $10,000 in June 1954. Columbia planned the film as a documentary-type story and did not intend that the film should advocate for Chessman's innocence. [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Doomed Killer Sells His Book". Variety. June 9, 1954. p. 3 – via Archive.org.

External links


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Cell 2455, Death Row (film))
Cell 2455, Death Row
Directed by Fred F. Sears
Screenplay by Jack DeWitt
Based on Cell 2455, Death Row
by Caryl Chessman
Produced by Wallace MacDonald
Starring William Campbell
Robert Campbell
CinematographyFred Jackman Jr.
Edited by Henry Batista
Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 19, 1955 (1955-04-19)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot

A death row inmate uses his prison-law studies to fight for his life.

Cast

Production

Columbia Pictures acquired the rights to Caryl Chessman's book Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story for $10,000 in June 1954. Columbia planned the film as a documentary-type story and did not intend that the film should advocate for Chessman's innocence. [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Doomed Killer Sells His Book". Variety. June 9, 1954. p. 3 – via Archive.org.

External links



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