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The Big House
Running Time: 84 min.
Produced By: / Cosmopolitan / MGM
Release By: MGM

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 (Ches... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Chester Morris (John Morgan) Wallace Beery (Butch Schmidt) Robert Montgomery (Kent Marlowe) Leila Hyams (Anne Marlowe) All Cast & Crew >> 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 ha ... Continue >>

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