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The Big House

Movie (1930)

"Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!"

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent (Robert Montgomery) is sent to prison. Here he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions. What the inmates believe to be a seamless plan turns into an all out massacre in this hard nosed crime drama.

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Released: Jun 14th, 1930
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The Big House Main Cast

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Chester Morris
Chester Morris
plays Morgan
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery
plays Butch
Lewis Stone
Lewis Stone
plays Warden
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery
plays Kent
Leila Hyams
Leila Hyams
plays Anne
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Movie Trivia/Goofs

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  • In Frances Marion's original script, the characters played by Leila Hyams and Robert Montgomery were husband and wife. After the film flopped in a preview screening, MGM studio executive Irving Thalberg decided that the problem was that audiences, especially women, didn't want to see the Chester Morris character have an affair with a married woman. So the script was rewritten to make Montgomery and Hyams brother and sister. Scenes were reshot and the film, in its modified form, became a major hit.
  • Movie Goof (boom mic visible): When Anne comes to visit Kent at the prison, and he walks up and says 'Hi sis,' the shadow of the microphone falls across her.
  • Movie Goof (continuity error): The hallway area outside Butch and Kent's cell changes between scenes, possibly due to re-shoots (see trivia).
  • Director George W. Hill threatened to fire anyone who "acted", and forbade makeup.
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