Murder in the Big House

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Faye Emerson and Ruth Ford in Murder in the Big House (1942)

A Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a ... Read allA Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a local reporter.A Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a local reporter.

Director
- B. Reeves Eason
Writers
- Raymond L. Schrock
- Jerome Chodorov
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6.3/10

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Trivia
Following Van Johnson's rise to become the 1945 top box-office leading man, and Faye Emerson marrying FDR's son Elliott Roosevelt in 1944, the film was re-released to theaters in late 1945 and early 1946 under the title BORN FOR TROUBLE.

Goofs
The scene of Bell and Scoop in the car and getting fired upon by a gangster in a different car alternates between night-time and daytime several times between shots.

Connections
Referenced in The Player (1992)

Soundtracks
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)
(1931) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Spo-De-Odee
Title spoken by Ray Montgomery

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6/10

If Wishes Were Horses

If "The Front Page" had been written by the boys at Warner Brothers instead of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; and if Howard Hawks going over it with his script girl and converting it into "His Girl Friday" had been Briny Foy's boys and girls in the B unit at Warner Brothers; and if it had starred Faye Emerson and Van Johnson in his debut as a leading man, instead of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, it might have turned out pretty much like this movie, a decent locked room mystery with great visuals by cinematographer Ted McCord.

Unfortunately for this movie, none of that stuff is true and this might be worth a look to see Miss Emerson in a role with some snap in it. Alas, that's for the guys like me who will look at dental x-rays. Go look at the Hawks version again.

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