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CRIME

DRAMA

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

name	character
Roscoe Ates	Putnam
Noah Beery Jr.	Convict in Yard (uncredited)
Wallace Beery	Machine Gun 'Butch' Schmidt
Matthew Betz	Gopher
Karl Dane	Olsen
Eddie Foyer	Dopey
Leila Hyams	Anne Marlowe
DeWitt Jennings	Wallace
George F. Marion	Pop
Chris-Pin Martin	Inmate (uncredited)
Claire McDowell	Mrs. Marlowe
Robert Montgomery	Kent Marlowe
Chester Morris	John Morgan
Louis Natheaux	Morgan's Lawyer (uncredited)
Fletcher Norton	Oliver
J. C. Nugent	Mr. Marlowe
Robert Emmett O'Connor	Donlin
Herbert Prior	Prison Doctor (uncredited)
Lewis Stone	Warden James Adams
Harry Wilson	Inmate #46375 (uncredited)
Tom Wilson	Sandy

name
George W. Hill	director
Frances Marion	writer (original), screenplay
Irving Thalberg	producer

year	award	category	name
1930	Academy Award	Best Screenplay	Frances Marion