Road to Alcatraz (1945)

Director
Nick Grinde

Main cast
Robert Lowery; June Storey; Grant Withers; Clarence Kolb; Charles Gordon

Genres
Mystery

Description
The police think a young lawyer (Robert Lowery) killed his partner, but he was drugged when it happened.


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