The Wrong Road is a 1937 American crime drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, and Lionel Atwill. The film is now in the public domain.

Plot

A young unmarried couple (Cromwell and Mack), whose plans for their life together have not turned out as expected, decide to steal $100,000 from the bank where the boyfriend works, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their prison sentences.

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All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator (Atwill), who has a soft spot for the couple and would like to see them go straight, and the boyfriend's old cellmate, who wants a cut of the money.

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Cast

Richard Cromwell as Jimmy Caldwell

Helen Mack as Ruth Holden

Lionel Atwill as Mike Roberts

Horace McMahon as Blackie Clayton

Russ Powell as Chief Ira Foster

Billy Bevan as McLean

Marjorie Main as Martha Foster

Rex Evans as Victor J. Holbrook

Joseph Crehan as District Attorney

Arthur Hoyt as Beamish, bank teller

Syd Saylor as Big Hobo

Selmer Jackson as Judge

Chester Clute as Dan O'Fearna

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1937 films

1937 crime drama films

American black-and-white films

American crime drama films

1930s English-language films

Films about bank robbery

Films directed by James Cruze

Republic Pictures films

1930s American films

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