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After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
DeWitt Jennings
- Captain Gleason
- (as De Witt Jennings)
Paul Porcasi
- Tony Spelvin
- (as Paul Porcassi)
Richard Bishop
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Andy Devine
- Cluck - a Convict with knife
- (uncredited)
James Guilfoyle
- Detective Doran
- (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
- Prison Guard in Yard
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe prison yard sequence was shot at M-G-M, using the set originally built for "The Big House" (1930).
- GoofsRobert calculates there are 52,560 hours in six years. However, he forgets leap years with their extra day. So, in a span of six years there would actually be 52,584 or 52,608 hours, depending on if that period included one or two leap years.
- Quotes
Mark Brady: [to Graham] Tough luck, Bob, but that's the way they break sometimes. You got to take them the way they fall.
- Crazy creditsThe film's credits do not say that Howard Hawks directed the film; instead, they say that the film is "A Howard Hawks Production."
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of El código penal (1931)
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One of the best prison movies ever made
I would say it is THE best except for my fondness for "Caged." This is a brilliant movie, as shocking as Hawks's "Scarface," released a year later and far better known.
Walter Huston is a district attorney when we met him. Throughout, he is given to the one word, catchall statement or response "Yeah." Huston has rarely if ever been better -- and he was one of the greats of Hollywood history.
Phillips Holmes is excellent as a young man he sends to prison. He is innocent in all senses before he gets there. But he quickly leans the code of the title.
Constance Cummins isn't given much as Huston's daughter but she is appealing. However, Boris Karloff gives one of his very finest performances as a tough but decent prisoner. Of course, of course he is fine in "Frankenstein." And he is wildly brilliant in "Lured" many years later. Here he gives a solid, unadorned, moving performance.
Clark Marshall, a name I do not recognize, is also fine. He plays a sniveling, conniving inmate. And DeWitt Jennings is shocking as a brutal guard.
Amazingly, I had never seen this movie before tonight. It's bone I will want to see again; and I urge you to see it, too.
Walter Huston is a district attorney when we met him. Throughout, he is given to the one word, catchall statement or response "Yeah." Huston has rarely if ever been better -- and he was one of the greats of Hollywood history.
Phillips Holmes is excellent as a young man he sends to prison. He is innocent in all senses before he gets there. But he quickly leans the code of the title.
Constance Cummins isn't given much as Huston's daughter but she is appealing. However, Boris Karloff gives one of his very finest performances as a tough but decent prisoner. Of course, of course he is fine in "Frankenstein." And he is wildly brilliant in "Lured" many years later. Here he gives a solid, unadorned, moving performance.
Clark Marshall, a name I do not recognize, is also fine. He plays a sniveling, conniving inmate. And DeWitt Jennings is shocking as a brutal guard.
Amazingly, I had never seen this movie before tonight. It's bone I will want to see again; and I urge you to see it, too.
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- Handlinghandel
- Nov 27, 2006
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