One Way Ticket (1935 film)

1935 film by Herbert Biberman

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

• Lloyd Nolan as Jerry
• Peggy Conklin as Ronnie
• Walter Connolly as Captain Bill Bourne
• Edith Fellows as Ellen
• Gloria Shea as Willa
• Nana Bryant as Mrs. Bourne
• Thurston Hall as Mr. Ritchie
• George McKay as Martin
• Robert Middlemass as Bender
• Willie Fung as Wing
• Jack Rube Clifford as Charlie
• James Flavin as Ed

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. 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.)

External links

• One Way Ticket at IMDb
• One Way Ticket at AllMovie
• One Way Ticket at the TCM Movie Database
• One Way Ticket at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films