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6.6/10   18 votes
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Director:
Marion Gering
Writers:
Ernest Booth (story)
Louis Weitzenkorn (writer)
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Release Date:
26 December 1931 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
On their Wedding day, Kathleen and Standish McNeil are followed home by Kid Athens, (a wanted murderer)... more | add synopsis
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SOLID "BIG HOUSE" DRAMA more

Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Runtime:
77 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Women Without Names (1940) more

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
SOLID "BIG HOUSE" DRAMA, 30 May 2004
Author: bensonj from New York, NY

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.

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