For You I Die

1947 CrimeDrama 76 minutes Directed by John Reinhardt

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About For You I Die

Johnny Coulter, a trustee with a year left on his sentence, is forced at gunpoint into an escape with Matt Gruber. Matt sends him to a rundown hotel where Hope Novak works for Maggie Dillon. Johnny and Hope fall in love. When Matt returns and tries to take Hope, Johnny fights him, drives him to the police, and turns him in. The governor says Johnny will not serve past the year he has left, and Hope says she will wait.

Cast & crew

More about For You I Die

John Reinhardt directed and produced with Robert Presnell Sr., who wrote the screenplay. Film Classics released it in the United States on December 17, 1947.

Themes

  • A year left on a sentence
  • An escape made at gunpoint
  • A hotel job and a second arrival
  • Turning the partner in
  • prison break
  • Johnny Coulter
  • Hope Novak
  • Matt Gruber
  • hotel

Look

William H. Clothier photographed the hotel and the escape.

Music

Paul Sawtell wrote the score.

Notes

  • Cathy Downs plays Hope. Paul Langton plays Johnny. Mischa Auer plays Alec Shaw. Roman Bohnen plays Smitty. Jane Weeks plays Georgie.
  • Don Harvey plays Matt Gruber. Marion Kerby plays Maggie Dillon.

Scenes

  • Matt forces Johnny into the break with a gun.
  • Johnny drives the injured Matt to the police station.

Also available

  • Internet Archive (ForYouIDie)
  • Wikimedia Commons (For You I Die (1947) by John Reinhardt.webm)