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The Big House (1930)
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"Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!"
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66
NR
1 hr 27 min
Jun 14th, 1930
Drama
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Crime
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Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Starring
Chester Morris
Wallace Beery
Lewis Stone
Director
George W. Hill
Writer
Frances Marion
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Theatrical Release:
June 14th, 1930
Original Language:
English
Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions
Movie Tags:
prison
pre-code
prison cell
inmate
incarceration
manslaughter
prison break attempt
Cast & Crew
C
Chester Morris
as John Morgan
W
Wallace Beery
as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
L
Lewis Stone
as Warden James Adams
R
Robert Montgomery
as Kent Marlowe
L
Leila Hyams
as Anne Marlowe
G
George F. Marion
as Pop
I
Irving Thalberg
Producer
B
Blanche Sewell
Editor
C
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
J
Joseph Farnham
Additional Dialogue
D
Douglas Shearer
Sound
G
George W. Hill
Director
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