The Big House
Summary:
Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery), driving drunk, kills a couple of pedestrians and is sentenced to a 10-year manslaughter term. His cellmate is forger Morgan (Chester Morris), a tough but essentially decent con; the cell-block leader is Butch (Wallace Beery), whose outer oafishness hides a cru... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Chester Morris - (John Morgan)
Wallace Beery - (Butch Schmidt)
Robert Montgomery - (Kent Marlowe)
Leila Hyams - (Anne Marlowe)
Lewis Stone - (Warden James Adams)
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Review:
The Big House established the prison drama as a motion picture genre, as it set new standards in realistic sound recording. Even by MGM's lofty standards, the film had high production values: the Cedric Gibbons-designed sets vividly recreated the harsh, sometimes brutal life inside U.S. prisons in the 1930s, and Douglas Shearer's Oscar-... Continue >>
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