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Parole! (1936)

Parole! poster
Directed by
Lew Landers
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 07m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets out of prison on parole and tries to go straight, but his past keeps pulling him back into the criminal world. He struggles with police pressure and old associates who want him to return to crime.

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What happens

Parole! is a 1936 American crime film directed by Lew Landers and written by Kubec Glasmon and Horace McCoy. The film stars Henry Hunter, Ann Preston, Alan Dinehart, Alan Baxter, Alan Hale Sr. and Grant Mitchell. The film was released on June 14, 1936, by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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