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The Big House

6.5 87 mins Crime   Drama   1930
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer   Cosmopolitan Productions  
Director(s): George W. Hill

Release Date: 14 Sat, Jun 1930

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.

Casts of The Big House

Chester Morris

as John Morgan

Wallace Beery

as Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt

Lewis Stone

as Warden James Adams

Robert Montgomery

as Kent Marlowe

Leila Hyams

as Anne Marlowe

J. C. Nugent

as Mr. Marlowe

Karl Dane

as Olsen

DeWitt Jennings

as Wallace

Matthew Betz

as Gopher

Claire McDowell

as Mrs. Marlowe

Tom Wilson

as Sandy

Eddie Foyer

as Dopey

Roscoe Ates

as Putnam

Fletcher Norton

as Oliver

Noah Beery Jr.

as Convict in Yard (uncredited)

Chris-Pin Martin

as Inmate (uncredited)

Louis Natheaux

as Morgan's Lawyer (uncredited)

Herbert Prior

as Prison Doctor (uncredited)

Harry Wilson

as Inmate #46375 (uncredited)

Angelo Rossitto

as Inmate (uncredited)

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