1954. Drama. Directed by Hugo Fregonese. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker & Peter Graves. A death row inmate breaks free on the eve of his execution, but will the law catch up with him?

Based on the true story behind the stock market crash of 1929 – which plunged the country and the world into the Great Depression – Dick Whitney, the newly appointed acting president of the NYSE, attempts to arrange a financial rescue package to avert the crash and save the global economy. But Whitney’s own ruinous investments and personal demons set him on a collision course with his brother George, the gatekeeper to J.P. Morgan, who is the key to preventing the crash.