The Big House
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- Year:
- 1930
- 87 min
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turner entertainment group and u.s. Department of education
hi, bill.
Hello, john.
See you later.
O.k. Good-bye.
Bye.
Kent marlowe-
manslaughter.
Sentenced
to 10 years.
First time
in prison?
Yes.
"Sir" to me.
Yes, sir.
How old are you?
24, sir.
Ever serve
in the army, navy, marine corps?
No, sir.
Use tobacco?
Yes, sir.
Morphine,
opium, cocaine?
No, sir.
Frisk him.
You can have
your cigarettes.
Married?
No, sir.
That's my sister.
You can have
the photographs.
Thank you, sir.
You'll get
the rest back
when you leave
prison.
From now on,
you'll be number 48642.
Give him
the works.
Still.
Give him 24.
Two blankets.
Coat, 36.
Underwear,
four.
Pants, five.
Shirt, 16.
Shirt, 16.
Hat, seven.
Shoes, 81/2.
Shoes, 81/2.
Change
your clothes in there.
Arm length,
351/2 inches.
351/2.
Scar on left
forefinger.
Left
forefinger.
Out this way.
I hate to see
in here
for manslaughter.
It was
an accident, sir.
Yes. I remember
your case very well.
You ran a man down
with your car.
Yes, sir. It was
new year's eve.
You were drunk.
Yes, sir.
And now
you're here to pay for that crime
with 10 years
of your life.
Do you realize that?
Yes, sir.
Your sentence
can be reduced by good behavior
and close observance
of the prison rules.
And while you're not,
in the common sense of the word, a criminal,
i want to warn you
against the influences you'll encounter here...
or in any other prison.
Yes, sir.
So you be careful
of your conduct, your associations.
Yes, sir.
And remember this...
prison
does not give a man a yellow streak,
but if he has one,
it brings it out.
That's all.
Well, riker,
what is it?
Do you know who
they're putting that boy in with?
No. Who?
Morgan-
the slickest crook we ever had here-
and machine-gun
butch.
Yes?
Well, a weak
kid like that
thrown in
with a murderer and a gunman?
Now, now, now, pop.
Don't you get
chicken-hearted again.
Well, he might
have a chance in the cell alone.
Yes. I warned them
at the last governor's council.
We have 3,000 here
and cell accommodations
for 1,800.
They all want to throw
people into prison,
but they don't want
to provide for them after they are in.
You mark my word, pop.
Someday we're going to pay
for their shortsightedness.
Yeah, sure.
is cockeyed.
Yeah?
Here's a face
for you, sandy.
He goes in 265
with butch and morgan.
O.k.
Come on, boy.
Upstairs
to the left.
Here we are.
Hello, kid.
Take off
your earmuffs.
I said hello.
Hello.
Make yourself
to home.
That's your flop
up there.
Thank you.
What's
your name?
I said,
what's your name?
Kent marlowe.
Mine's schmidt.
I'm known
the world over
as machine-gun
butch.
You heard of me.
That's a cinch.
You never heard
of the delacey gang being wiped out?
Well, i done
the wiping.
500 bucks
for bumping off 3.
It ain't much.
It's cheap.
What's your racket?
What you in for?
Manslaughter.
Manslaughter?
Well, you ain't
Press the flesh.
Who'd you croak?
Well, it was
an accident.
An accident?
Yeah. I was
driving a car-
oh, you're all
wet ears. Your nose ain't even dry.
What do you mean?
I'll show you
what i mean, kid.
I'll learn you
a lot of things
before we're through
with you in here.
Morg,
there's company in the parlor.
Morgan's my name.
Kent's mine.
How are you?
Don't you ever have
any air in here?
Sure. Plenty.
All hot.
How long
you been here?
Three years.
What for?
Robbery.
I can't stand
thieves.
Hey, my cigarettes.
What?
You took
my cigarettes.
Why, you dirty
little liar. You didn't have no cigarettes.
Yes, i did,
and you stole them.
Aw, stop your
bellyaching before i slough you one.
Come on. Give me back
those cigarettes.
You're dingy.
You didn't have no cigarettes.
Give me those
cigarettes! Aw, get out!
I'll show you crooks
i won't stand for treatment like this.
Hey, guards! Guards!
Aw, stop
your squawking.
Crooks, are we?
Well, mr. High hat, i'll show you-
come on.
Let go of me!
Pipe down.
Pipe down.
Hey, hey, hey. What's wrong in here?
He took
my cigarettes.
Did he, morgan?
I don't know, sir. I was asleep.
Did you take
the kid's cigarettes?
They're no, sir,
both lying. So help me-
less noise, or you'll
spend your first night in the dungeon.
Aw, don't
put the kid in the cooler.
He's green.
He just went off his nut.
He won't
do it again.
Well, you watch your step.
Understand?
Well,
mr. Yellowbelly,
you're going to get
You can't squeal
in stir.
That's that.
Now, lay off
that stuff, butch. Do you hear?
Aw, he's only
stunned. I didn't bat him hard.
Put him
in his bunk.
Yeah?
Yeah.
O.k.
Now give him back
his cigarettes.
What?
You heard me.
Why, i ain't got
his old weeds.
Don't lie to me,
butch.
Say, listen,
i bumped off guys
for calling me
a liar.
Yeah, and look
where you are now.
Who, me?
Yes, you.
Well, look where
you are, too.
That's right, butch,
both of us...
the quick and the dead,
the clever and the dumb.
What?
You know,
from the neck down,
you're
a regular guy, butch.
Now, give the kid back
his cigarettes.
Who, me?
Yes, you.
O.k.
I was only kidding.
Just kidding,
that's all.
Sure. I knew that
all the time.
Now, put them up
in his pocket.
I said, put them up
in his pocket.
Gee!
It reminds me
of sadie.
Gee...
sadie was
a good old skirt.
I shouldn't
have slipped her that ant poison.
I should have just batted her in the jaw
get off
of my stones, will you?
Get back in line there!
Hey, is everything
all set?
Sure.
Quiet.
Here he comes.
Uh, kent, we hear
you're slated to get out soon.
What do you mean?
Who told you that?
Jim's a trustee
over in the warden's office.
He's in
on everything.
And he heard
something about me?
Yeah. The warden says
you're too nice a kid to keep here.
They're
going to sure, let me go? They are.
How soon?
Oh, just as soon
as the warden
gets
the o.k. From the governor.
Are you
kent marlowe?
Yeah.
Wallace
wants to see you.
What does he want
to see me for?
Why, to tell you
the good news-that you've been pardoned.
Wait a minute.
Well, ain't you
gonna say good-bye?
Sure. Good-bye.
Be good, kent.
So long, kid.
Hey!
Where
you headed?
Captain wallace
wants to see me.
You can't
go in there. Get back.
What's the row out here?
They said you wanted
to see me, sir, about my parole.
Who said that?
Well, they did-
that trustee over there where...
it's true, isn't it?
They weren't
ribbing me, were they?
Sure. They're
kidding you, kent.
Well, then i'm
not going out?
No. You're going
to be with us for a long time.
Go on. Beat it.
You're not sore,
are you?
What's
the matter, boy?
Are you
going home?
Hey, you!
Don't gang up here.
Come on.
Keep this place clear.
Scatter out.
Hey, pop.
Any letters
for me?
Move on, now.
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