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The Big House is a 1930 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by George Hill, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and Robert Montgomery. The story and dialogue were written by Frances Marion, who won the Academy Award for Best Writing Achievement. As one of the first prison movies, it ...
- $414,000
- June 24, 1930
- no credit
- Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
The Big House: Directed by George W. Hill, Ward Wing. With Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery. A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
- (2.5K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- George W. Hill, Ward Wing
- 1930-06-14
Big House, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) You're Too Nice A Kid More of MGM’s massive interior sets, derived partly from writer Frances Marion’s visit to San Quentin, our first trip to the yard with new inmate Kent (Robert Montgomery), with the boys playing what looks like a standard trick, DeWitt Jennings the head screw, in The Big House, 1930.
- George Hill, Ward Wing
- Chester Morris
Remarkably brutal for an MGM film, The Big House (a double Oscar winner, for best screenplay and sound recording) established not only the grimy mise-en-scene of prison life, but also a whole new glossary of slang terms and a veritable menagerie of movie "types," from the firm but kindly prison chaplain to the embittered lifer.
Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery lead in this suspenseful film that depicts the range, desperation and loyalty of 3,000 felons, inhabiting an institution ...
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The Big House (1930) 'The Big House' is a dramatic prison film made in 1930 during the beginning of Talkies, directed by George W. Hill and starring Wallace Beery, in the role which made him a Talkies star, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery and Leila Hyams. It is an intense, well acted drama and defined many of the prison movies ...
Title Screen : Movie Title/Year and Scene Descriptions: Screenshots: The Big House (1930) In George Hill's and MGM's early prison flick was one of the most realistic of Hollywood's melodramatic prison pictures, and became the model for many subsequent dramatic prison films; it was noted for its imaginative staging (with mobile crane and dolly shots, and an early zoom shot into a gun, and its ...
