Mutiny in the Big House (1939)

1939 · Feature film · 79 min · dir. William Nigh

JAIL BREAK! Snarling killers riot...and only a brave man with a prayer stands in their way to freedom!

• Drama
• Crime

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Synopsis

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival is a good man who's had some bad luck, sets out to help keep him out of trouble so he can serve his sentence and get out. However, his cellmate, a hardened con, sees the chaplain's interest in the young convict as something he can use in his planned jailbreak.

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Details

Director

William Nigh

Writer

Robert Hardy Andrews

Studio

Monogram Pictures

Released

1939-10-24

Running time

79 minutes

Cast & crew

• William Nigh Director
• Charles Bickford
• Barton MacLane
• PPat Moriarity
• Dennis Moore
• William Royle
• George Cleveland
• Charley Foy
• Russell Hopton

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