We Who Are About to Die

The Terrific drama about men who are about to die!

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.

Preston Foster

(Steven Mathews)

Ann Dvorak

(Connie Stewart)

John Beal

(John Thompson)

Ray Mayer

(Bright Boy Schultz)

Gordon Jones

(Slim Tolliver)

Russell Hopton

J. Carrol Naish

Paul Hurst

Frank Jenks

(Clyde Beasley)

John Wray

Frank M. Thomas

Barnett Parker

Willie Fung

John Carroll

DeWitt Jennings

(Mike Brannigan)

Landers Stevens

(Warden Lawton)

John "Skins" Miller

Howard Hickman

(Prison Chaplain)

Robert Emmett O'Connor

(Detective Mitchell)

Oscar Apfel

(Mr. Armitage (uncredited))

William Bailey

(Policeman Passenger (uncredited))

Willie Best

(Airport Porter (uncredited))

Stanley Blystone

(Plainclothesman with Rifle (uncredited))

Harry Bowen

(Agitated Citizen in Mob (uncredited))

Ed Brady

(Worker Throwing Stone (uncredited))

Sonny Bupp

(Hit-and-Run Victim (uncredited))

William Burress

(Charlie Gaunt (uncredited))

Ralph Byrd

(Police Lab Technician (uncredited))

Eddy Chandler

(Prison Guard Sergeant (uncredited))

Wallis Clark

(Dr. Hedges (uncredited))

Frank Fanning

(Guard in Visitor's Room (uncredited))

Jim Farley

(Police Officer Johnson (uncredited))

Jerry Fletcher

(Reporter (uncredited))

Eddie Hart

(Police Driver (uncredited))

Dell Henderson

(Blake's Associate (uncredited))

Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian

(Convict (uncredited))

Al Herman

(Reporter (uncredited))

Russell Hicks

(District Attorney Knight (uncredited))

Arthur Hoyt

(Governor's Secretary (uncredited))

Edward Keane

(Ed Stanley (uncredited))

Donald Kerr

(Agitated Citizen at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited))

Edward LeSaint

(Judge (uncredited))

Wilfred Lucas

(Prison Yard Captain (uncredited))

Frank Marlowe

(Prison Lab Technician (uncredited))

Tom McGuire

(Death-Row Captain Harris (uncredited))

Bruce Mitchell

(Prison Guard with Machine Gun (uncredited))

Philip Morris

(Guard Escorting Kwong to Gallows (uncredited))

Jack Perry

(Convict Making Noise with Cup (uncredited))

George H. Reed

(Black Convict (uncredited))

Larry Steers

(Man in District Attorney's Office (uncredited))

Charles Sullivan

(Cell Block E Convict (uncredited))

Richard Tucker

(Defense Attorney (uncredited))

Monte Vandergrift

(Plainclothesman Finding Gun (uncredited))

Sailor Vincent

(Convict (uncredited))

Emmett Vogan

(Prison Lieutenant (uncredited))

Max Wagner

(Cell Block E Convict (uncredited))

Ethel Wales

(Travel Bureau Customer (uncredited))

Walter Walker

(The Governor (uncredited))

Bryant Washburn

(Martin Blake (uncredited))