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Big House, U.S.A. is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Howard W. Koch and written by John C. Higgins. The film stars Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman, Lon Chaney Jr., and Charles Bronson. The film was released on March 3, 1955, by United Artists.
Big House, U.S.A.: Directed by Howard W. Koch. With Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman. Gerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Gerry goes to prison.
Sep 4, 2019 · 5 KILLER CONVICTS BREAK OUT!A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison. Addeddate.
Well, sooner or later, even an exploitation specialist like Howard W. Koch is capable of turning out a gem and his diamond in the rough is Big House, U.S.A. (1955), a gritty little crime thriller that deserves some kind of award just for the casting alone.
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When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Gerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he goes for help.
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
Big House, U.S.A. is a 1955 American crime film directed by Howard W. Koch and written by John C. Higgins. The film stars Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Charles Bronson. The film was released on March 3, 1955, by United Artists.
A captured criminal conspires with four other inmates to break out of prison and search for a fortune in ransom money he buried somewhere in the Colorado...
In a move to dig up $200,000 in buried ransom money, a cadre of dangerous criminals stages a mass exodus from Casabel Island Prison. But treachery and infighting among them threatens to destroy their plot from within.
