One Way Ticket (1935 film)
One Way Ticket is a 1935 American crime film directed by Herbert Biberman starring Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin and Walter Connolly. The film is based on the novel One-Way Ticket by Ethel Turner (New York, 1934).[1]
| One Way Ticket | |
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| Directed by | Herbert J. Biberman |
| Written by | Joseph Anthony Oliver H. P. Garrett Grover Jones Vincent Lawrence (screenplay) Ethel Turner (novel) |
| Starring | Lloyd Nolan Peggy Conklin Walter Connolly |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
| Edited by | John Rawlins |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It is a prison drama in which a man becomes a robber following the authorities' failure to convict a corrupt banker.[2]
It was the directorial debut of Biberman, a playwright and theatre director of Marxist political leanings; following some theatrical success in New York, he signed a two-picture deal with Columbia in 1934, and it was followed by Meet Nero Wolfe in 1936.[2]
Critical reception
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly good review, judging it to be well acted and describing it as "criticiz[ing] as well as thrill[ing]". Greene drew particular attention to the prison break scene as the film's "one excellent sequence".[3]
References
- "Life in Prison: ONE-WAY TICKET by Ethel Turner". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- Dick, Bernard F. (11 July 2014). Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. p. 72. ISBN 9780813147710.
- Greene, Graham (10 April 1936). "Liebesmelodie/Pot Luck/If You Could Only Cook/One Way Ticket". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 65. ISBN 0192812866.)
External links
- One Way Ticket at IMDb
- One Way Ticket at AllMovie
- One Way Ticket at the TCM Movie Database
- One Way Ticket at the American Film Institute Catalog