One Way Ticket is a 1935 American crime film directed by Herbert Biberman starring Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin and Walter Connolly. The film is based on the 1934 novel One-Way Ticket by Ethel Turner.
It was the directorial debut of Biberman, a playwright and theatre director of Marxist political leanings; following some theatrical success in New York, he signed a two-picture deal with Columbia in 1934, and it was followed by Meet Nero Wolfe in 1936.
Plot A man becomes a robber following the authorities' failure to convict a corrupt banker.
Cast Lloyd Nolan as Jerry Peggy Conklin as Ronnie Walter Connolly as Captain Bill Bourne Edith Fellows as Ellen Gloria Shea as Willa Nana Bryant as Mrs. Bourne Thurston Hall as Mr. Ritchie George McKay as Martin Robert Middlemass as Bender Willie Fung as Wing Jack Rube Clifford as Charlie James Flavin as Ed
Critical reception Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a mildly good review, judging it to be well acted and describing it as "criticiz[ing] as well as thrill[ing]". Greene drew particular attention to the prison break scene as the film's "one excellent sequence". (reprinted in: )
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