The Big House (1930)

6.6/10 87 min Crime Drama

Overview

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.

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

J. C. Nugent

Mr. Marlowe

Karl Dane

Olsen

DeWitt Jennings

Wallace

Matthew Betz

Gopher

Claire McDowell

Mrs. Marlowe

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Donlin

Tom Wilson

Sandy

Roscoe Ates

Putnam

Fletcher Norton

Oliver

Noah Beery Jr.

Convict in Yard (uncredited)

Chris-Pin Martin

Inmate (uncredited)

Louis Natheaux

Morgan's Lawyer (uncredited)

Herbert Prior

Prison Doctor (uncredited)

Recommendations

Kiss of Death
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Yield to the Night
Ladies They Talk About
The Blue Gardenia
Dog Pound
The Killer Is Loose
Each Dawn I Die
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
They Made Me a Fugitive
Plunder Road
I Want to Live!
Knock on Any Door
The Asphalt Jungle
Johnny O'Clock
The Man with the Golden Arm
Indemnity
Witness to Murder
Framed
The Public Enemy