The Big House

The Big House

1930 | 1h 27m | Drama, Crime | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Robert Montgomery stars with Academy Award winner Wallace Beery as a young, college-educated man whose life changes utterly when he's convicted in a drunk-driving case and sentenced to hard time.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

George Hill

CAST

Robert Montgomery

Wallace Beery

Chester Morris

Lewis Stone

Leila Hyams

George F. Marion

J. C. Nugent

Karl Dane

DeWitt Jennings

Matthew Betz

Claire McDowell

Robert O'Connor

Tom Kennedy

Tom Wilson

Eddie Foyer

Roscoe Ates

Fletcher Norton

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

Frances Marion

Host Intros

02:20
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Big House (1930)
Intro Aired: Sep 2019
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Big House, 1930.

Related Videos

03:00
Big House, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) You're Too Nice A Kid
Clip
More of MGMs massive interior sets, derived partly from writer Frances Marions visit to San Quentin, our first trip to the yard with new inmate Kent (Robert Montgomery), with the boys playing what looks like a standard trick, DeWitt Jennings the head screw, in The Big House, 1930.
03:51
Big House, The (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Mushrooms All Over It
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Director George Hill capturing more of the remarkable scale of the MGM sets in another famous scene, in the mess hall, Butch (Wallace Beery) sowing discontent, the warden (Lewis Stone) intervening, and new inmate Kent (Robert Montgomery) timidly foiling a plot, in The Big House, 1930.
Big House, The (1930) -- (Movie Cilp) He's Only Stunned
Clip
Rumblings of Monty Python in Frances Marion's script, as Kent (Robert Montgomery) meets cell-mates Butch (Wallace Beery) and Morgan (Chester Morris), in The Big House, 1930, directed by Marion's husband George Hill.
Big House, The (1930) -- (Movie Cilp) First Time In Prison?
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Dramatic opening, featuring a model prison, into which Kent (Robert Mongtomery) is incarcerated in convincing manner, from MGM's The Big House , 1930, also starring Wallace Beery and Chester Morris.

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