One Way Ticket (1935 film)

One Way Ticket is a 1935 American crime film directed by Herbert Biberman starring Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin and Walter Connolly. The film is based on the 1934 novel One-Way Ticket by Ethel Turner.

It was the directorial debut of Biberman, a playwright and theatre director of Marxist political leanings; following some theatrical success in New York, he signed a two-picture deal with Columbia in 1934, and it was followed by Meet Nero Wolfe in 1936.

Plot
A man becomes a robber following the authorities' failure to convict a corrupt banker.

Cast

 * Lloyd Nolan as Jerry
 * Peggy Conklin as Ronnie
 * Walter Connolly as 	Captain Bill Bourne
 * Edith Fellows as 	Ellen
 * Gloria Shea as 	Willa
 * Nana Bryant as 	Mrs. Bourne
 * Thurston Hall as 	Mr. Ritchie
 * George McKay as 	Martin
 * Robert Middlemass as Bender
 * Willie Fung as 	Wing
 * Jack Rube Clifford as 	Charlie
 * James Flavin as Ed

Critical reception
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly good review, judging it to be well acted and describing it as "criticiz[ing] as well as thrill[ing]". Greene drew particular attention to the prison break scene as the film's "one excellent sequence".