As 1948 thriller Cry of the City begins, career criminal Martin Rome (Richard Conte) is being held in police custody in hospital, with four bullet holes in him and little expectation he’s going to make it through surgery. Rome’s shot a cop dead, he claims in self defence, and if he survives it’s almost certain he’s heading for the electric chair. He’s got other problems too: a childhood friend, Candella, (Victor Mature) is now the police lieutenant out to get him and there’s a shady lawyer trying to frame Rome for a jewellery robbery which ended in murder that someone else committed. If that wasn’t enough, his secret fiancee Teena (Debra Paget) isn’t so secret anymore, and both the lawyer and the cops think she’s the key to getting Rome. Desperate to get to Teena before Candella or anyone else, Rome conspires to break out from the prison ward and beat everyone to her. Not
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