One Way Ticket (1935 film)

One Way Ticket
Directed byHerbert J. Biberman
Written byJoseph Anthony
Oliver H. P. Garrett
Grover Jones
Vincent Lawrence
(screenplay)
Ethel Turner
(novel)
StarringLloyd Nolan
Peggy Conklin
Walter Connolly
CinematographyHenry Freulich
Edited byJohn Rawlins
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • November 25, 1935 (1935-11-25)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.[1]

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.[2]

Plot

A man becomes a robber following the authorities' failure to convict a corrupt banker.[2]

Cast

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".[3]

References

  1. ^ "Life in Prison: ONE-WAY TICKET by Ethel Turner". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b Dick, Bernard F. (11 July 2014). Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. p. 72. ISBN 9780813147710.
  3. ^ Greene, Graham (10 April 1936). "Liebesmelodie/Pot Luck/If You Could Only Cook/One Way Ticket". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. p. 65. ISBN 0192812866.)


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