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Ellis Island

5.0 68 mins Drama   1936
Invincible Pictures Corp.  
Director(s): Phil Rosen

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.

Casts of Ellis Island

Donald Cook

as Gary Curtis

Peggy Shannon

as Betty Parker

Jack La Rue

as Dude

Joyce Compton

as Adele

Bradley Page

as Solo

Johnny Arthur

as Kip Andrews

Maurice Black

as Nails

Matty Fain

as Turk

Bryant Washburn

as Peter James

Lew Kelly

as Farmer

George Rosener

as Uncle Ted Kedrich

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