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Crashout is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis R. Foster and starring William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, and Beverly Michaels..
Once the coast is clear they then set out on a long, dangerous journey to the mountaintop where the loot is hidden. The convicts take by foot, car, train and truck in an attempt to get to the money. On the journey, the doomed prisoners interact with many locals including a farm woman, a doctor kidnapped by the gang to save Van Duff's life, and a young woman on a train. Quinn is prepared to run off with the girl on the train until he hears the radio blaring his description and realizes he can't drag her into his criminal lifestyle.
As they near their goal in freezing weather, the other survivors are whittled down through their own self-destructive actions and encounters with the law: Mendoza is shot by a motorcycle cop following a robbery, and Monk is set on fire by a man the gang had beat up earlier. Swanee soon goes insane, killing Billy Lang, and Van Duff has to kill him in self-defense, further narrowing down the gang to Van Duff and Quinn by the time they get to the mountaintop.
Once the money is recovered, Van Duff turns on Quinn and leaves him for dead. Quinn finds Van Duff frozen to death the next morning, still holding the money. Quinn, the only survivor of the six, gives himself up to an approaching search party and is grateful for their presence.
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