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Writers:
George W. George (story)
John C. Higgins (writer)
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Release Date:
18 November 1955 (Belgium) more
Tagline:
5 KILLER CONVICTS BREAK OUT! (original print ad - all caps) more
Plot:
When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search... more | add synopsis
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The Iceman Cometh more (9 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Broderick Crawford | ... | Rollo Lamar |
 | Ralph Meeker | ... | Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman |
| Reed Hadley | ... | Special FBI Agent James Madden |
| William Talman | ... | William 'Machine Gun' Mason |
 | Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith (as Lon Chaney) |
 | Charles Bronson | ... | Benny Kelly |
| Felicia Farr | ... | Emily Euridice Evans (as Randy Farr) |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Chief Ranger Will Erickson |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Robertson Lambert (as Willis B. Bouchey) |
| Peter J. Votrian | ... | Danny Lambert (as Peter Votrian) |
 | Robert Bray | ... | Ranger McCormick |
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83 min (Turner library print)
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1.75 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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West Germany:18 (nf) | USA:Approved (Certificate #17328) | Sweden:15
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Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of equipment in foreground when the 3 escapees are talking about fishing with the park ranger on horseback. more
Quotes:
Rollo Lamar:
Any of you geniuses know what "apparently" means?
Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith:
"Apparently?"
Rollo Lamar:
Yeah.
Benny Kelly:
Yeah, it means that something that ain't, looks like it is.
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Rugged mid-fifties prison break flick with great cast,--Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Lon Chaney, Jr., Charles Bronson, Reed Hadley, Bill Bouchey and Roy Roberts--it oozes violence and cruelty, and is even today one tough, convincing little movie. Ralph Meeker is excellent as a cold-blooded killer known as 'the iceman", but Crawford has the film's best line when Meeker joins his prison cell: "The iceman cometh". Very watchable and outdoorsy, with fine work by a virile cast, it rather resembles stylistically Crawford's TV series Highway Patrol in its plain, police procedural take on the American western landscape of the fifties, with killers, like Commies, lurking behind every rock and tree. Strong stuff, and a worthy late entry in the prison escape genre.