The Big House

“Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!”

Kent Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) just wants to serve out his sentence for manslaughter and get home, but the prison he is sent to won't allow it. He is put in a crowded cell with hardened men like Machine Gun Butch Schmidt (Wallace Beery) and John Morgan (Chester Morris), who are already talking about breaking out. George W. Hill shows a young man with no one to trust, and the men around him are planning an escape that could kill them all.