The Big House
"Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!"
Released19301h 27minNR
The Big House
"Timely! Tremendous! Thrilling! Drama of Love and a Jail-Break!"
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
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.
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
