Gaol Break (1936)

Sub-Genres - Escape Film  |   Run Time - 64 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

In this actioner, a prisoner must break out in time to keep his wife, who has involved herself with a creepy gang, from selling their son to a rich family who has just lost their own child. He succeeds, but then must find his son and the new family. He locates them aboard their yacht. There he begins to realize that the boy is far better off with them and he returns to prison.

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rescue, aristocracy, boy, captive, captor, child, convict, escape, escaped-convict, espionage, family, gangster, life, lifestyle, plans, prison, prison-escape, race-against-time, search, self-sacrifice, selling, son, thug, tracking [following], wife, yacht