Mutiny in the Big House (1939) - (Crime, Drama)
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Approved | 1h 23min | Crime, Drama | 13 July 1940 (Mexico)
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival is a good man who's had some bad luck, sets out to help keep him out of trouble so he can serve his sentence and get out. However, his cellmate, a hardened con, sees the chaplain's interest in the young convict as something he can use in his planned jailbreak.
Director: William Nigh
Writers: Robert Hardy Andrews, Martin Mooney
Stars: Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Pat Moriarity
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival is a good man who's had some bad luck, sets out to help keep him out of trouble so he can serve his sentence and get out. However, his cellmate, a hardened con, sees the chaplain's interest in the young convict as something he can use in his planned jailbreak.
Director: William Nigh
Writers: Robert Hardy Andrews, Martin Mooney
Stars: Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Pat Moriarity