Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Broderick Crawford	...	Rollo Lamar
	Ralph Meeker	...	Jerry Barker
	Reed Hadley	...	Special FBI Agent James Madden
	William Talman	...	William 'Machine Gun' Mason
	Lon Chaney Jr.	...	Alamo Smith (as Lon Chaney)
	Charles Bronson	...	Benny Kelly
	Felicia Farr	...	Emily Euridice Evans (as Randy Farr)
	Roy Roberts	...	Chief Ranger Will Erickson
	Willis Bouchey	...	Robertson Lambert (as Willis B. Bouchey)
	Peter J. Votrian	...	Danny Lambert (as Peter Votrian)
	Robert Bray	...	Ranger McCormick

Storyline

When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he goes for help. Instead, Barker calls the father and demands $200,000 ransom. The money is delivered and Barker buries most of it. Meanwhile, the panicky boy has fallen from the tower to his death, and Barker drops the body off a cliff. The FBI, led by James Madden, capture Barker but can't convict him of kidnapping and he is given only five years for extortion and sent to Casabel Island Prison. There he is assigned a cell with Rollo Lambar, Alamo Smith, Benny Kelly and Machine Gun Mason. The FBI have now traced an affiliation between Barker and Emily Evans, a nurse at Danny's camp. The five cell-mates, led by Rollo, who plans to kill Benny and dress him in Barker's clothes to throw off the police... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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