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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 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.
Kent Marlowe, a frightened young man convicted of manslaughter while driving drunk, becomes cellmates with hardened prisoners "Machine Gun" Butch Schmidt and John Morgan, who are serving time, respectively, for homicide and robbery. Conditions at the prison are extremely harsh, especially in the prison mess, where the convicts are fed small ...
Twenty-four-year old Kent Marlowe is just beginning his ten-year sentence in prison for vehicular manslaughter. Kent, not seeing himself as a "criminal" and who has the support of a loving family, is nervous and scared about his incarceration, especially in that he will be sharing a cell in the already overcrowded prison with John Morgan and ...
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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 long ...
The Big House (1930) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by George W. Hill and Ward Wing and produced by Irving Thalberg. SYNOPSIS. Early talkie that set the stage for the countless men-behind-bars melodramas that followed.
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.
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.
The Big House (1930) Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery lead in this suspenseful film that d epicts the range, desperation and loyalty of 3,000 felons, inhabiting an institution built for only 1,800. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
