The Last Mile (1932 film)

The Last Mile is a 1932 American film directed by Samuel Bischoff and starring Howard Phillips and Preston Foster. The picture is based on John Wexleys 1930 Broadway play, The Last Mile. In 1959 the play was adapted a second time into a film of the same name starring Mickey Rooney.

Richard Walters is condemned to death for crime he claims he never committed. While the drama inside the prison unfolds, his friends on the outside are trying to find evidence that he is innocent.A clip from this film was used by progressive rock band Rush as their intro to the song Lock and Key during its performance on the Hold Your Fire tour, later released on the Show of Hands laserdisc. VHS version excluded the Lock and Key performance, as did the DVD years later. ........

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