The Big House Triple Feature (DVD)

Three thousand men are crammed into cells designed to hold 1800. And with the overcrowding comes the hard-time toughness, the mess-hall ritual, the dark agony of the hole, the cigarettes as currency, the hidden shivs, the hushed voices in the yard, the scheming and the desperation of men with nothing to lose - all the conventions of prison films to come were set with Ho11ywood's first major men-behind-bars picture. Wallace Beery as killer "Machine Gun" Butch Schmidt, Chester Morris as sly con Morgan, who grasps a chance to redeem himself, and Robert Montgomery as a scared kid-turned-stoolie lead the way in a gritty double Academy Award« winner.* "I'm going to break this place open," Machine Gun says. He means it.

Starring: Chester Morris, José Crespo, Juan de Landa, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Tito Davison, Luana Alcañiz, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, Giovanni Martino, Luis Llaneza, George F. Marion, J. C. Nugent, Juan de Homs, José Soriano Viosca, Karl Dane, Romualdo Tirado, DeWitt Jennings, Mathew Betz, César Vanoni, Claire McDowell, Carlos Cea, Vicente Padula, Robert E. O'Connor, Tom Kennedy, Gabry Rivas, Roberto Saa Silva, Tom Wilson, Eddie Foyer, Alma Real, Antonio Vidal, Roscoe Ates, Julián Rivero, Fletcher Norton, Charles Boyer, Andre Berley, Andre Burgere, Mona Goya, Georges Mauloy, Rolla Norman, Geymond Vital, Emile Chautard, Albert Petit