Vincent Canelli (Edward G. Robinson) is a violent mobster serving time on Death Row - but he has no intention of going to the electric chair. Following a plan put together by his moll, Hatti (Jean Parker), Canelli orchestrates a jailbreak on the night before his execution and takes several hostages in the process. Canelli is joined by fellow Death Row inmate Peter Manning (Peter Graves), and hopes to discover the location of a stash of stolen loot Manning hid away before his conviction. But is Manning willing to pay the price for freedom and look the other way as the psychopathic Canelli revels in murder and mayhem?
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