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26 December 1931 (USA) morePlot:
On their Wedding day, Kathleen and Standish McNeil are followed home by Kid Athens, (a wanted murderer)... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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SOLID "BIG HOUSE" DRAMA moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sylvia Sidney | ... | Kathleen Storm McNeil |
| Gene Raymond | ... | Standish McNeil |
| Wynne Gibson | ... | Susie Thompson |
| Earle Foxe | ... | Kid Athens |
| Rockliffe Fellowes | ... | Martin Doremus |
| Purnell Pratt | ... | John Hartman |
| Frank Sheridan | ... | Warden Hecker |
| Louise Beavers | ... | Ivory |
| Miriam Goldina | ... | Maria, Mexican Inmate |
| Hilda Vaughn | ... | Millie |
| Fritzi Ridgeway | ... | Reno Maggie |
| Esther Howard | ... | Clara Newman |
| Edna Bennett | ... | The Countess |
| Ruth Lyons | ... | Gertie |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Mrs. Turner (head matron) |
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. moreFAQ
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Flower shop girl Sidney has the bad luck to have a vicious hoodlum fall for her in a big way. When she prefers Raymond, the hood has them both framed for murder. Some powerful moments when they're allowed to see each other for a few brief moments in the penitentiary not long before he's to be executed, and it turns out that the meeting been arranged merely to give a tabloid a photo op. The conventions of "the big house" story seem to have been already firmly established by 1931: the snitch with the facial tic, the girl with phony society airs, the tough gal, the big break, the heavy-set matron (Jane Darwell, unbilled), Beavers as a friendly "hot music" loving mama. The story, the characterizations, the writing, all have the familiarity of the mid-thirties; solid entertainment, but not with the freshness found in so many pre-Code films.