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Cell 2455 Death Row (film)

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Cell 2455, Death Row
Directed byFred F. Sears
Screenplay byJack DeWitt
Based onCell 2455, Death Row
by Caryl Chessman
Produced byWallace MacDonald
StarringWilliam Campbell
Robert Campbell
CinematographyFred Jackman Jr.
Edited byHenry Batista
Music byMischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)
Production
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Distributed byColumbia 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

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

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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]

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References

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