Not the first of the prison pictures, but the one that truly put the genre on the map. Playboy Kent (Robert Montgomery), driving drunk, kills a couple of pedestrians and is sentenced to a 10-year manslaughter term. His cellmate is forger Morgan (Chester Morris), a tough but essentially decent con; the cell-block leader is Butch (Wallace Beery), whose outer oafishness hides a cruel, calculating mind. Butch lives for the day that he can bust out and doesn’t care who gets hurt along the way. Panicking, Kent “rats” on Butch and is murdered during the climactic breakout as a consequence. Morgan behaves courageously, saving the warden (Lewis Stone) and the guards from Butch’s wrath; as a reward, Morgan earns a reduced sentence and the love of Kent’s sister Anne (Leila Hyams). Remarkably brutal for an MGM film, The Big House (a double Oscar winner, for best screenplay and sound recording) established not only the grimy mise-en-scene of prison life, but also a whole new glossary of slang terms and a veritable menagerie of movie “types,” from the firm but kindly prison chaplain to the embittered lifer. The film was gloriously lampooned by Laurel & Hardy’s Pardon Us, in which Walter Long played the Beery counterpart., Robert Montgomery stars with Academy Award winner Wallace Beery as a young, college-educated man whose life changes utterly when he’s convicted in a drunk-driving case and sentenced to hard time in The Big House., The Story of Three inmates in a sadistic prison and their efforts to esacpe. After a manslaughter conviction from drunk driving, nice but foolish Kent is sent to a prison over-crowded and unable to properly deal with it’s inmates. There he meets veteran criminals like Morgan and his hardened pal Butch. And the system punishes them all, turning them against each other and bringing out the worst., One of the earliest prison dramas, this study of men behind bars focuses mostly on the oafish cell-block leader, a tough but decent forger and a playboy doing time for manslaughter after he killed two pedestrians while driving drunk. The film is highlighted by a brutal jailbreak.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Big House ” ?
A: The main cast includes Wallace Beery,Robert Montgomery,Chester Morris,Karl Dane,Lewis Stone,Leila Hyams,George F. Marion Sr.,J.C. Nugent,DeWitt Jennings,Matthew Betz,Claire McDowell,Robert Emmett O’Connor,Robert E. O’Connor,Tom Wilson,Eddie Foyer,Roscoe Ates,Fletcher Norton,Adolph Seidel,Tom Kennedy,Eddie Lambert,Michael Vavitch,David Cox,Joseph Farnham,Harold Wenstrom,Frances Marion,Blanche Sewell,Lennox Robinson,Cedric Gibbons,Martin Flavin,Douglas Shearer.
Q: When Did the “The Big House” Released?
A: The Movie “The Big House” originally aired on 1930-06-24 and released in the year of 1930.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Big House” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Big House” ?
A: “The Big House” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
