The Last Mile (1932 film)

The Last Mile is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Samuel Bischoff and starring Preston Foster. The picture is based on John Wexley's 1930 Broadway play, The Last Mile. Actor Howard Phillips appeared in both the play and the film but in different roles. In 1959, the play was adapted a second time into a film of the same name starring Mickey Rooney.

Plot
The movie presents life in a prison where men are on death row. Some of them are wrongfully accused and convicted; there is nothing in their future but the electric chair.

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a crime he claims he did not commit. While the drama inside the prison unfolds, his friends on the outside are trying to find evidence that he is innocent.

Cast

 * Howard Phillips as Richard "Dick" Walters, Cell 5
 * Preston Foster as John "Killer" Mears, Cell 4
 * George E. Stone as Joe Berg, Cell 1
 * Noel Madison as D'Amoro, Cell 6
 * Alan Roscoe as Kirby, Cell 7
 * Paul Fix as Eddie Werner, Cell 8
 * Al Hill as Fred Mayer, Cell 3
 * Daniel L. Haynes as Sonny Jackson, Cell 2
 * Frank Sheridan as Warden Frank Lewis
 * Alec B. Francis as Father O'Connor
 * Edward Van Sloan as Rabbi
 * Louise Carter as Mrs. Walters
 * Ralph Theodore as Pat Callahan, Principal Keeper
 * Jack Kennedy as Mike O'Flaherty, Guard
 * Albert J. Smith as Drake, Guard
 * William Scott as Peddie, Guard
 * Kenneth MacDonald as Harris, Guard
 * Walter Walker as Governor Blaine
 * John T. Prince as Jury Member