

Cry of the Hunted
1953-05-08 · 80 min · ★ 6.1
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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- Directors
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Production companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Vittorio GassmanJory
Barry SullivanLieutenant Tunner
Polly BergenJanet Tunner
William ConradGoodwin
Robert BurtonWarden Keeley
Harry ShannonSheriff Brown
Jonathan CottDeputy Davis
Eugene MazzolaAlbert Jory
Harry CheshireDoctor
Bill WalkerDock Attendant
Nolan LearyPrison Doctor (uncredited)
Inez PalangeOld Woman (uncredited)
Fred SantleyTicket Clerk (uncredited)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

Two escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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