“Don’t miss this powerful prison drama. You’ll never forget it. Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes head a brilliant cast.” –Photoplay
Directed by Howard Hawks
Sentenced to 10 years for an accidental death, Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) is given a break when his sympathetic prison warden takes him on as chauffeur. However, Robert’s upcoming parole and his love for the warden’s daughter are threatened when he witnesses a murder by cellmate Galloway (a chillingly vengeful Boris Karloff) and must choose between his freedom and the inmates’ code of silence.
Columbia Pictures Corp. Producer: Harry Cohn. Screenwriter: Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller, based on the play by Martin Flavin. Cinematographer: Teddy Tetzlaff, James Wong Howe. Editor: Edward Curtiss. Cast: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, De Witt Jennings.
35mm, b/w, 97 min.
