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Mutiny in the Big House

Country: USA, Language: English, 83 mins

  • Director: William Nigh
  • Writer: Martin Mooney; Robert Hardy Andrews
  • Producer: Grant Withers

CGiii Comment

The introductory dedication - to prison chaplains - will have you heaving into the vomit bucket in next to no time.

The prisoners put on a show - with a drag act. Don't get too excited - it lasts for about 2 seconds.

The script is laughable - unintentionally funny.

And, it has the worst rendition of the Lord's Prayer ever recorded.

Sanctimonious piffle.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison. The prison chaplain, seeing that the new arrival is a good man who's had some bad luck, sets out to help keep him out of trouble so he can serve his sentence and get out. However, his cellmate, a hardened con, sees the chaplain's interest in the young convict as something he can use in his planned jailbreak.

Cast & Characters

Charles Bickford as Father Joe Collins;
Barton MacLane as Red Manson;
Pat Moriarity as Pat, the Warden;
Dennis Moore as Johnny Davis;
William Royle as Captain of Guards Ed Samson;
Charley Foy as Convict Bitsy;
George Cleveland as Convict 'Dad' Schultz;
Nigel De Brulier as Convict Mike Faleri;
Eddie Foster as Convict Del;
Richard Austin as Singing Jim;
Russell Hopton as Convict Frankie;
Horace B. Carpenter as White-Haired Pedestrian;
Jack Daley as Cell Block Guard;
Kit Guard as Convict in Machine Shop;
Harry Hayden as Mr. Scott, Parole Board Chairman