Le Cercle Rouge (1970), Whistle Down the Wind (1962), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Runaway Train (1985), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), Hell Is a City (1960), Murder, He Says (1945), Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Escaped Convict movies.
Storyline: This movie centers around a prison escape from the Colorado State Penitentiary. There are 12 escapees and it shows the efforts placed to capture these men.—Gerald W. Riley
Plot Keywords: escaped convict, prisoner, hostage, police officer, warden, brash, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One night in New York, beefy escaped convict Moose Malloy goes hunting for his ex-girlfriend Velma, leaving a trail of mayhem behind him. Velma seems to be well-hidden, and adventurer The Falcon, intrigued, investigates on his own, approaching the heart of the mystery via a varied sequence of shady characters and attractive women.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: detective, escaped convict, inspector, sidekick, ex-girlfriend, reporter, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson)hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was convicted. Donald has escaped and wants his brother to help him across the Santa Cruz River into the Mexico-side Nogales, where his wife (Shirley Patterson as Shawn Smith)and children (Kim Charney and Sandy Deschler) are in dire straits. The straits get even dier when P.M. tells him the river is flooded and it will be days before anyone can cross. And P.M. is all a'twitter because his wife Nora (Ruth Roman), whom he married after Donald had gone to prison, doesn't know about his jail-bird brother. He introduces Donald to Nora and the rest of his Cadillac Cowboy and ranch society friends as an old friend, and is kept busy trying to make sure old Donald doesn't find anything harder that ginger ale to drink. Donald gets a telephone call telling him that his family has gone from dire straits to destitution and when P.M. won't get some money to them through his contacts in the Mexico side of Nogales, Donald knocks him down and grabs a couple of bottles of whiskey and dashes out of the house into the rain.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: escaped convict, brother, wife, friend, farmer, husband, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rejoin the gang. Muggs is the only one who knows where the stolen money is hidden and Manning is after it.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: escaped convict, criminal, sheriff, son, daughter, government agent, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity and using their skill as con-men, the two adopt their persona to take on the task. Of course, as the two are heterosexual, their interest in the involved ladies intensifies. Ally Walker is a banker, who is distrustful of men and has given up on love. Illeana Douglas plays the dowdy, badly dressed teacher.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: bank robber, escaped convict, sheriff, teacher, banker, young girl, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Things are complicated by smuggling, cheating, honor, inventions, medicine, and love at first sight...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: industrialist, race car driver, gambler, army officer, escaped convict, lord, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: partner, snitch, insurance broker, business owner, wealthy woman, suspenseful, store ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Businessman Gerald Axton goes to his ranch to rest, having had a near-heart-attack due to business worries. But while there (with his female assistant who makes his heart flutter as much as his business worries), a pair of escaped criminals crashes the party, as well as a plane load of passengers who literally crash in. Coincidentally, the plane was carrying the state's governor, whom Axton was at odds with, Axton's ex-paramour and her lover, whom Axton was sending away under false pretenses, and a reporter willing to write up all the sordid details.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: tycoon, escaped convict, secretary, pilot, governor, reporter, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a shocking worldwide public service announcement, the United Nations reveals that in three days a meteor careening toward Earth will collide with the planet's surface and end life as we know it. In light of widespread looting and epic gridlock on the region's choked roads, Ale (Víctor Clavijo) resolves to spend 72 continuous hours of carefree debauchery. But, when a prison break endangers his brother's young children, Ale braves the chaos to defend those who matter most.
Plot Keywords: young man, mother, brother, escaped convict, serial killer, suspenseful, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1876, Duncan MacDonald joins the new, 300-member Mounted Police in western Canada, just in time for a dangerous mission. It seems the Cree Indians, raiding across the border in Montana, took two hostages for their safe return to Canada. But MacDonald, with only scout Natayo to help, will need all his diplomacy and then some to extract the captives from the midst of a thousand Cree.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: mountie, native american, escaped convict, soldier, guide, hostage, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A lonely mother, invites a handsome car accident victim into her home. Desperate for a little attention, she doesn't realize she's entertaining a sociopathic, yet charming escape convict. In one terrorizing night her life completely changes as she fight for her own life and the life of her children in No Good Deed.
Plot Keywords: lonely woman, escaped convict, stranger, husband, former lover, mother, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate wrongly confined in prison. He escapes and finds a haven and romance in an Arizona small town. But his hopes of happiness and freedom are dashed when gangster Joe Mallon and his four henchmen show up. Mallon was the one who engineered Bill into the frame-up felony that sent him to prison along with Mallon. Bill is forced to lead Mallon and his men into an escape attempt across the blistering, sun-scorched desert.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: college graduate, wrongly accused, escaped convict, gangster, henchmen, bank robber, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this movie filmed and released in 1961 (and not a 1962 production), an escaped convict returns to town and begins a reign of terror. Marked for death are Dr. Dean Knudtson, his wife Janice, formerly married to the killer, and Jeff Baxley, on whose testimony the man was originally sent to prison. Sheriff Charles Morton and deputy Sam Freed head a posse tracking down the killer in the desert. The man is found dead of the wounds inflicted by a prison guard trying to prevent his escape. The sheriff resigns his job and heads west with Joan.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: escaped convict, fugitive, sheriff, ex-wife, doctor, witness, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun block lotion that looks like camouflage; but financing is tough to find and Betty thinks he should get a real job. Buzz's half-brother Turkey, a murderous psychopath, escapes from jail, comes to the trailer, ties up Buzz, kidnaps Betty, steals $10,000 they've just won from Publisher's Clearing Hut's Lucky Loser drawing, and heads for Mexico. Buzz is untied by Maya, an ex-girlfriend who's now a TV reporter in search of a story. They pick up Turk's trail and set out to rescue Betty.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, brother, ex-girlfriend, escaped convict, grandmother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to recover thirty-seven million dollars in stashed loot.
Plot Keywords: mentor, escaped convict, detainee, engaging, wyoming, forest, firefighters ...
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