Murder in the Big House
1942 · Movie · 59 min. · United States
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy. His investigation reveals that the condemned man was about to reveal some damaging information about the connection between the city's corrupt political machine and its major organized crime ring. The reporter hatches a plan, with the help of the paper's alcoholic political columnist, to get himself thrown in prison to get the information the murdered prisoner was going to reveal and expose both the crooked politicians and the gangsters they're in cahoots with.
Direction B. Reeves Eason
Cast Van Johnson · Faye Emerson · George Meeker · Frank Wilcox · Tod Andrews · Roland Drew · Ruth Ford · Joseph Crehan · William Gould · Douglas Wood · Dick Rich · Henry Hall · Patrick McVey · Fred Kelsey · William 'Bill' Phillips · John Maxwell · Jack Mower · Creighton Hale · William Hopper
Soundtrack Leo Erdody · Howard Jackson · William Lava
Screenplay Raymond L. Schrock · Jerome Chodorov
Cinematography Ted D. McCord
Original title Murder in the Big House
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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