The Big House
1930 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Young Kent Marlowe, sent to prison for manslaughter, never learns the prison 'code of honor', planting a knife on his cellmate John Morgan, causing Morgan's parole, due to start the next day, to be revoked. Morgan escapes, meets and falls in love with Marlowe's sister, is recaptured and returned to prison where his ex-cellmate, tough-guy murderer Butch Schmidt, has entrusted the details of a planned breakout to the craven Marlowe.
Direction George W. Hill
Cast Chester Morris · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Robert Montgomery · Leila Hyams · George F. Marion · J.C. Nugent · Karl Dane · DeWitt Jennings · Matthew Betz · Claire McDowell · Robert Emmett O'Connor · Tom Kennedy · Tom Wilson · Eddie Foyer · Roscoe Ates · Fletcher Norton
Screenplay Joseph Farnham · Martin Flavin · Frances Marion
Cinematography Harold Wenstrom
Original title The Big House
6.5
112 votes (FilmAffinity)
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