Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 1930
Country: USA
Runtime: 87
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: George W. Hill
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

  • Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!

    • Writing by: Joseph Farnham - additional dialogue (as Joe Farnham)
    Martin Flavin - additional dialogue
    Frances Marion - dialogue
    Frances Marion - story
    Lennox Robinson - uncredited

    Produced by: Irving Thalberg - producer (uncredited)

    Cast: 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 Riker
    J.C. Nugent - Mr. Marlowe
    Karl Dane - Olsen
    DeWitt Jennings - Capt. Wallace
    Matthew Betz - Gopher (as Mathew Betz)
    Claire McDowell - Mrs. Marlowe

    Music: Philippe Sarde
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    Plot Outline: A convict falls in love with his new cellmates sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
    Plot: After a manslaughter conviction from drunk driving, nice but foolish Kent is sent to a prison over-crowded and unable to properly deal with its inmates. There he meets veteran criminals like Morgan and his hardened pal Butch. And the system punishes them all, turning them against each other and bringing out the worst.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    A chorus of females dance and sing “No Woman No Cry” during much of the end credits.

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: The windows of Bobbys apartment at the beginning of the movie, after the car drives by, are closed/open between shots.

    Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:

    • Director George W. Hill threatened to fire anyone who “acted”, and forbade makeup.
    • In Frances Marions original script, the character played by Leila Hyams was Robert Montgomerys wife. After the film flopped in a preview screening, MGM studio head Irving Thalberg decided the problem was that audiences, especially women, didnt want to see the Chester Morris character have an affair with a married woman. So the script was rewritten to make Montgomery and Hyams brother and sister, retakes were made and the film in altered form was a major hit.
    • Lon Chaney was originally cast in the role of Butch Schmidt. But due to his untimely death, the role was given to Wallace Beery.