20,000 Years in Sing Sing

"MEN without WOMEN...MEN without HOPE! smash their lives to pieces against their STEEL CHAINS!"

Dec 24 1932 Approved 1h 18m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Plot

Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. A trouble maker, he gets ninety days in solitary and no parole. His girlfriend Fay is injured and Warden Long lets Tom visit her on his honor to return. During a fight with mobster Joe Finn Fay shoots Finn, Tom jumps out the window and is blamed for the death. He gives himself up but is sentenced to the electric chair.

Written by

Lewis E. Lawes, Wilson Mizner, Brown Holmes

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

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