- HD 1080
- Runtime: 83m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Ted Tetzlaff
- Stars: Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Shepperd Strudwick
- keywords: prison escape, film noir, racketeers
- Production_studio: Universal International Pictures
- Slogan: Story of a prison farm that gave a convict a gun...and gave him a pardon if he used it!
- The Under the Gun is featured in the top rankings of 1951
- #22 in Top Crime Movies of 1951
A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.