The Last Mile is a Broadway play by John Wexley that ran for 289 performances from February 13, 1930, to October 1930 at the Sam H. Harris Theatre.

It was produced by Herman Shumlin and staged by Chester Erskine.

The Last Mile was adapted for a 1932 feature film directed by Samuel Bischoff.

The film took a number of liberties with the original story, toning down its grim realism and shifting the emphasis from Killer Mears (Preston Foster) to Richard Walters (Howard Phillips).

[2] A 1959 adaptation starring Mickey Rooney as Mears was directed by Howard W.