The Big House

Release Date:
Jun 14, 1930
Running Time:
1:27
Genre:
Crime Drama
Director:
George W. Hill
Cast:
Wallace Beery 'Machine Gun' Butch Schmidt
Chester Morris John 'Morg' Morgan, alias John Everett
Robert Montgomery Kent Marlowe
Lewis Stone Warden James Adams
Leila Hyams Anne Marlowe (sister)
George F. Marion Pop Riker (guard)
J.C. Nugent Mr. Marlowe
Karl Dane Olsen
De Witt Jennings Capt. Wallace
Matthew Betz Gopher (gardener/inmate)
Claire McDowell Mrs. Marlowe
Robert Emmett O'Connor Sergeant Donlin (policeman)
Tom Wilson Sandy (guard)
Eddie Foyer Dopey
Roscoe Ates Putnam
Fletcher Norton Oliver (sinister inmate)
Adolph Seidel Prison Barber (uncredited)
Eddie Lambert Bit Part (uncredited)
Michael Vavitch Bit Part (uncredited)
Writers:
Joseph Farnham, Frances Marion, Lennox Robinson, Martin Flavin
Language:
English

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After being convicted of manslaughter, drunk driver Kent Marlowe is inducted into the rigors of prison life. He befriends fellow cons ''Machine Gun'' Butch Schmidt and John Morgan . Together they bristle at the prison's deplorable conditions and especially the inhumane policies of their cruel warden . Rising tensions culminate in a prison riot that may shake the institution to its core.

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