Six sticks of dynamite that blasted his way to freedom … and awoke America’s conscience!
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
- 7.8
- 1932
- Released
- 1h 32m
Paul Muni
James Allen
Glenda Farrell
Marie Woods
Helen Vinson
Helen
Noel Francis
Linda
Preston Foster
Pete
Allen Jenkins
Barney Sykes
Berton Churchill
The Judge
Edward Ellis
Bomber Wells
David Landau
The Warden
Hale Hamilton
Rev. Allen
Sally Blane
Alice
Louise Carter
Mother
Everett Brown
Sebastian T. Yale - Strong Prisoner
Willard Robertson
Prison Board Chairman
Robert McWade
F.E. Ramsey
Robert Warwick
FullerWilliam Le Maire
A Texan
Charles Middleton
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Dennis O'Keefe
Café Chateau Dancer (uncredited)
Wallis Clark
Chicago Lawyer (uncredited)
Erville Alderson
Police Chief (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Bill - Barber (uncredited)
Reginald Barlow
Mr. Parker (uncredited)
James Bell
Red (uncredited)Frederick Burton
Southern Prison Official (uncredited)A.S. Byron
Cop in Barber Shop (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Cop (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Job Foreman (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
Wilson (uncredited)
George Cooper
Vaudevillian (uncredited)Jack Curtis
Prison Guard (uncredited)
Harry Woods
Prison Guard (uncredited)
John Marston
Prison Commissioner (uncredited)
Douglass Dumbrille
District Attorney (uncredited)
J. Frank Glendon
Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
Diner Cook (uncredited)
Jack La Rue
Ackerman (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
Chamber of Commerce Chairman (uncredited)
Walter Long
Blacksmith (uncredited)Jack Low
Big Prisoner (uncredited)
Edward McNamara
Second Warden (uncredited)
William Pawley
Doggy (uncredited)
Charles Sellon
Hot Dog Stand Owner (uncredited)Allen D. Sewall
Train Station Guard (uncredited)
William H. Strauss
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Sheila Terry
Allen's Secretary (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Marine on Ship (uncredited)Jack Wise
Tailor (uncredited)
John Wray
Nordine (uncredited)
Released
en
$195,845.00
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- #hamburger
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- #fugitive
- #pre-code
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- #reverend
- #tradesman
- #prison system
- #prison brutality
- #prison life
- #prison reform
- #innocent in jail
- #reformed criminal
- #escapee
- #forced labor
Reviews
Masterpiece that keeps influencing as much as it enthrals. Being a man who has a very unhealthy penchant for any film that deals with incarceration, it is with great elation that I can proudly proclaim this to be one of the greatest films of the genre. I had to finally give way and import the film on Region 1 to see what I was missing, boy was it joyous to see how this film has influenced some