Cell 2455 Death Row (film)

Cell 2455, Death Row
Directed by Fred F. Sears
Produced by Wallace MacDonald
Screenplay by Jack DeWitt
Based on Cell 2455, Death Row
by Caryl Chessman
Starring William Campbell
Robert Campbell
Marian Carr
Kathryn Grant
Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff (uncredited)
Cinematography Fred Jackman Jr.
Edited by Henry Batista
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 19, 1955 (1955-04-19)
Running time
 77 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Cell 2455, Death Row is a 1955 film based on the prison memoir of death row inmate Caryl Chessman. The film was directed by Fred F. Sears and stars William Campbell as the adult "Whit Whittier" and Robert Wright Campbell as "Whit" (Chessman) as a boy. Chessman's birth name was Carol Whittier Chessman.

The film, while following the book closely, carries the disclaimer "The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional".[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cell 2455 Death Row (1955) Trivia". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 5 January 2014.


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