
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Directed by Gordon Douglas, San Quentin leans on a strong ensemble — Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane, Marian Carr — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about crime titles of 1946.
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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.
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