
Murder in the First(1995)
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.


“Radioactive-drug test an alibi for murder!”
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

John Howard
Dr. Ross Williams

Joan Dixon
Lt. Joan McKenna

Walter Kingsford
Dr. J.P. Finley
Lynne Carter
Ethel Ganz

Robert Shayne
Barry Morgan

Kim Spalding
Duke Shaw
Sam Scar
Eddie Ganz

Kenneth MacDonald
Col. Harris

Dick Cogan
Dan Staley

Frank Cady
Max Henry
Experiment Alcatraz is a crime film released in 1950 exploring themes of prisoner, alcatraz prison, drug testing. Directed by Edward L. Cahn, it stars John Howard, Joan Dixon, Walter Kingsford. A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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