Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1930. Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Chester Morris.
Contents:
Disc 1. The big house / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Cosmopolitan production ; directed by George Hill ; story and dialogue by Frances Marion ; additional dialogue by Joe Farnham and Martin Flavin -- The big house / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer présente ; une production "Cosmopolitan" ; réalisation de Paul Fejos ; scénario et dialogue de Frances Marion ; dialogue additionnel de Joe Farnham et Martin Flavin ; adaptation française de Yves Mirande -- disc 2. El presidio / La Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presenta ; una producción Cosmopolitan ; drigida por Ward Wing ; versión española y diálogo por Edgar Neville ; argumento por Frances Marion ; diálogo adicional por Joe Farnham y Martin Flavin.
Summary:
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 desperation of men with nothing to lose - all the conventions of prison films to come were set with Hollywood's first major men-behind-bars picture.
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