The Big House (1930)
Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!
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.
- Date of release
- 1930-06-14
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (56)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- George W. Hill
Casting
- Chester Morris — John Morgan
- Wallace Beery — Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
- Lewis Stone — Warden James Adams
- Robert Montgomery — Kent Marlowe
- Leila Hyams — Anne Marlowe
- George F. Marion — Pop
- J. C. Nugent — Mr. Marlowe
- Karl Dane — Olsen
- DeWitt Jennings — Wallace
- Matthew Betz — Gopher
- Claire McDowell — Mrs. Marlowe
- Robert Emmett O'Connor — Donlin
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