The Big House
Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!
Overview
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cosmopolitan Productions
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Cast
Chester Morris
John Morgan
Wallace Beery
Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
Lewis Stone
Warden James Adams
Robert Montgomery
Kent Marlowe
Leila Hyams
Anne Marlowe
George F. Marion
Pop
J. C. Nugent
Mr. Marlowe
Karl Dane
Olsen
DeWitt Jennings
Wallace
Matthew Betz
Gopher
Claire McDowell
Mrs. Marlowe
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Donlin
Tom Wilson
Sandy
Roscoe Ates
Putnam
Fletcher Norton
Oliver
Noah Beery Jr.
Convict in Yard (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
Inmate (uncredited)
Louis Natheaux
Morgan's Lawyer (uncredited)
Herbert Prior
Prison Doctor (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Inmate #46375 (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- George W. Hill
- Writers
- Frances Marion,Frances Marion
- Producers
- Irving Thalberg
- Cinematography
- Harold Wenstrom
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CinemaSerf
October 12, 2025
This is one of my favourite early examples of the dog-eat-dog world in prison as the young “Marlowe” (Robert Montgomery) is sent down for a decade after a road accident led to a fatality. Not surprisingly, he’s as anxious as hell - not least when he learns that he is to share facilities with “Morgan” (Chester Morris) and convicted murderer “Butch” (Wallace Beery). The governor (Lewis Stone) is broadly sympathetic, as is the chief warder (George F. Marlon) as they reckon putting this naive and im…