No Escape Tonspur (1953)

Synopse

Down-on-his-luck songwriter John Howard Tracy is reduced to making up lyrics for customers in his favorite San Francisco bar after his successful career stalls. One night, Tracy is forced to humble himself to drunken businessman Wilbur K. Grossett, then suffer insults from playboy artist Peter Hayden, who walks away with Pat Peterson, a department store executive whom Tracy has befriended. Hours later, when Pat's boyfriend, police detective Simon Shayne, and his partner Lt. Gunning rouse him from a drunken stupor, Tracy gives them a song sheet of his latest tune. Barely able to walk out of the bar, Tracy then goes to Hayden's place to confront him, but when he arrives, Hayden is lying dead on the living room floor. Initially, Tracy plans to call the police, but fearing that he will be accused of killing Hayden, he leaves, taking Hayden's drawing of Pat along with him.

The next day, Shayne tells Pat about Hayden's death, adding that he found and removed her gloves at the crime scene to protect her. Pat explains that she returned home with Hayden after accepting a ride, but when he attacked her, she struck him with the vase in self defense. Believing that the blow caused Hayden's death, and fearing the drawing will incriminate her, Pat is wrought with guilt and prepares to turn herself in. As Shayne tries to convince her otherwise, Tracy arrives at the apartment announcing that he has the drawing. When Shayne insinuates that Tracy is trying to blackmail Pat, Tracy bitterly asks for their cash, then hands the drawing to Pat, who does not believe Shayne's accusations.

Later, Gunning tells Shayne that witnesses saw a woman at the apartment, but she has yet to be identified. However, the fingerprints found at the scene match Tracy's prints from his sheet music. Soon the police set up check points at all San Francisco bridges, ferries and airports trying to find Tracy. Meanwhile, Tracy tells Pat and Shayne the truth about how he found Hayden, hoping that Pat will explain what really happened. Shayne insists that, between the fingerprint evidence and a neighbor hearing a man's voice at Hayden's that night, the case is building against Tracy and threateningly suggests that he leave town.

Meanwhile, Pat, not wanting an innocent man to be convicted of a crime she committed, once again wants to confess, but Shayne convinces her to be silent. Forced to sleep on the streets to avoid capture, Tracy gets food and clothing from friend Turnip, a street-wise drunk who frequented the bar. Meanwhile, after Pat receives a letter from Tracy returning the $25 he took from her and Shayne, she decides to help him and asks Turnip for his location. Pat then gives Tracy a train reservation to Los Angeles that is supposed to be for her boss, Claude Duffy, and promises to help Tracy escape to Los Angeles and on to Mexico.

When Duffy arrives at the station and warns police of the imposter, Tracy's old bar friend Olga Valerie Lewis swaps identification with Pat and stalls the police while the couple escapes out the back of the station. As the police scour the city for them, Tracy and Pat return to her apartment, where a desperate Pat contemplates suicide. After Tracy prevents Pat from jumping from her window, she berates him for his failings and hiding from his life, but in the heat of the moment, they kiss and vow to help each other. Spotting Shayne approaching the apartment, Tracy and Pat race to Chinatown, where they bump into a still drunken Grossett, who invites them to a socialite's party.

After Tracy and Pat elude Grossett and proceed to the party, Grossett, learning of their crime from the barman, alerts police of Tracy's location. Introduced as songwriter to the socialites, Tracy is soon asked to play a number, but, suspecting that the party host has learned his real identity, Tracy's orders Pat to escape without him while he keeps the crowd entertained. The song intrigues a movie music executive who wants to buy the material, but everyone is soon horrified when Tracy reveals his real identity and offers to turn himself in. Despite Tracy orders, Pat has remained at the party and convinces him to flee with her to Hayden's apartment.

Still determined to turn himself in, Tracy asks Pat to call Shayne to send the police. Although Shayne promises to call Gunning, he heads for Hayden's apartment alone. Meanwhile, Tracy plays an album of his music that he finds on the phonograph and remembers that at five o'clock, when he arrived on the night of the murder, the radio was playing and there were two glasses on the table. Shocked, Pat explains that she did not share a drink with Hayden and Tracy's album was playing, not the radio. It was two o'clock, not five o'clock when she left after hearing someone stumbling towards Hayden's apartment door.

As they both deduce that the murder must have been committed by someone else, Shayne enters the apartment and, holding the couple at gun point, orders them out the window. While police surround the building, Shayne forces Tracy and Pat to climb up to the roof, hoping to evade capture. Having earlier seen Hayden's drawing of Sally Doyle, Shayne's former girl friend, Pat and Tracy realize Shayne killed Hayden out of jealousy. The police climb to the roof just in time to shoot the gun from Shayne's hand and arrest him, saving Tracy and Pat, who vow to begin a new life together.

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Play	Titel	Künstler
	No Escape
	Townsville, Queensland	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Tender to the Blue	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Lana's Journey	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Swimming to the Beach	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	The Waterfall	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	No Escape from the Past	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Entering the Blue	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Colonel Reyes	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Funeral and Danger	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Boat Chase	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Lana Returns to the Police	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Aaron's Decision	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Why Would Anyone Lie	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	The BLF	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	Coming Clean	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	I Just Want to Be with Lana	Dominik Scherrer: Künstler
	The President's Toast	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	No Escape	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Little Dreamer	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Jack Wakes	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Market Research	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Coup Coup Roux	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Jack Be Nimble	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Where's Lucy	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Pool Cue	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Rooftop Refuge	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Need a New Roof	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Roof Toss	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Map Quest	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Atavistic Jack	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	The Bike Thief	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Embassy Issues	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Annie Surrenders	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Fighting For Annie	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Brothel Refuge	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Under the Stars	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	007812	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Shall We Gather At The River	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Gunshy	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	South of the Border	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Border Refuge	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	The Story of Lucy	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	Take Care Of You (Jim James)	Marco Beltrami: Künstler
	No Escape: Main Titles	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Helicopter to Absolom	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Robbins Captured By the Outsiders	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Ralph: Director of Aquatic Activities	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	The Father	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	The Insiders' Camp	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	"Wet Dreams"	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	"I Love Those Boots"	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Banishment	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	On the Ramparts / Outsiders Attack	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Battle With Marek	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	The Funeral Pyre	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Robbins Returns to the Outsiders' Camp	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Casey Tortured	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Robbins Kills Casey	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Redemption and New Hope	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	Marek's Death	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	The Traitor Unmasked	Graeme Revell: Künstler
	The Trap Is Set and Freedom	Graeme Revell: Künstler

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