Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
- 6.0
- 1935
- Released
- 1h 21m
Conrad Veidt
Convict 83
Helen Vinson
Anna Fernandez
Noah Beery
Mooche
Cecil Ramage
Major Ramon Montez
Edmund Willard
The Greek
Percy Parsons
LumberjackPeter Croft
'Boy' Convict
Raymond Lovell
Captain Torres
C.M. Hallard
Commandant Fernandez
Allan Jeayes
Dr. PradaPercy Walsh
Capt. PerezCharles Castella
Ambrose Day
Gibson Gowland
PriestBasil Langton
Gunner Moir
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Conrad Veilt plays an erudite man imprisoned on the penal colony of Santa Maria (a bit like Devil's Island) where he serves a fairly austere military regime as an orderly. He is fortunate, the remainder of the inmates are little better treated than vermin. They have no rights and the doctrine is straightforward - obey or perish. None has a name, merely a number and so "83" decides to mobilise the