“Each
Dawn I Die” is a Crime Drama, screenplay by Norman Reilly and Raine Warren Duff, from a Novel
by Jerome Odlum and Directed by William Keighley.
In this prison classic, a top notch newspaper
reporter Frank Ross (James Cagney) angers a corrupt District Attorney with
political ambitions, and with Ross’s news stories implicating him in criminal
activity he decides to frame Ross for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Although
innocent, he is found guilty and is sent to jail but while his friends at the
newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life
and his optimism turns to bitterness and then he meets fellow-inmate 'Hood'
Stacey (George Raft) and they decide to help each other.
This impressive crime drama also features: George
Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom, Victor Jory, Emma Dunn, Stanley Ridges and John
Wray.
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