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     The Big House
1930  NR  DRAMA  1h 27min
CAST— Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Karl Dane, Leila Hyams
MUSIC— Louis Silvers  DIRECTOR— George Hill

     Pretty good men behind bars tale, complete with high drama and tension aplenty. When a green young man is sent to prison for manslaughter his first cellmates turn out to be a former thief and a rather likable gunman, two hardened vets of the prison system. Here the story veers from telling the tale of the new fish into telling of the escape of his cellmate, the former thief. He vows to go straight… if only he can make a clean break. He winds up back in the pen, just in time for the story to take another turn, this time showing how the gunman starts an uprising that results in fifty dead men within the confines of the prison walls. Entertaining, though coherency is not an attribute. Oscar-winner for Best Writing, Best Sound Recording.
OUR RATING— ** ½