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
A death row inmate uses his prison-law studies to fight for his life.
Cast
William Campbell as Whit Whittier
R. Wright Campbell as Whit as a Boy (as Robert Campbell) Marian Carr as Doll Kathryn Grant as Jo-Anne Harvey Stephens as Prison Warden Vince Edwards as Hamiton Allen Nourse as Serl Whittier Diane DeLaire as Hallie Whittier Bart Braverman as Whit, as a Young Boy (as Bart Bradley) Paul Dubov as Al Tyler MacDuff as Nugent Buck Kartalian as Monk Eleanor Audley as Blanche Thom Carney as Hatcheck Charlie Joseph Forte as Lawyer (as Joe Forte) Howard Wright as Judge
Production
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.