Road to the Big House

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.