Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.
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Ernie Alexander
- Milk Wagon Driver
- (uncredited)
Jack Baxley
- Grocery Store Proprietor
- (uncredited)
Bonita
- Woman Assisting the Clapmans
- (uncredited)
Hazel Boyne
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Lillian Castle
- Woman Assisting the Kaplans
- (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham
- Mechanic
- (uncredited)
R. Chrysler
- Truck Driver
- (uncredited)
Davison Clark
- Police Sergeant
- (uncredited)
Claudia Coleman
- Mother
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaMGM originally announced Clark Gable for the lead and Mae Clarke for the role of "Shirley", but neither was in the movie. A contemporary news item also listed Christian Rub and Henry Wadsworth as cast members, but these actors were also not in the movie.
- GoofsThe policeman says that killing someone in a fight, unless the killer can prove self-defense, is murder. This is wrong. Murder requires malice aforethought. The killer in this instance would be guilty of manslaughter.
- ConnectionsVersion of Four Walls (1928)
- SoundtracksA Hundred Years from Today
(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Victor Young
Lyrics by Joe Young and Ned Washington
Played on a radio and sung by an unidentified man
Played also on a record and often as background music
Featured review
Do They Offer Classes In Elocution At Sing Sing?
Franchot Tone is just out of prison, and mama May Robson is glad to see him. So are girlfriends Karen Morley and Gladys George, representing good choices and bad choices -- it's all very symbolic. Tone never wants to go back to prison, but his old gangster friends and the difficulty of getting a job stand in his way.
It's based on a play by Dana Burnet and George Abbot, and it had been made as a silent as FOUR WALLS. I haven't seen that version, but there are hints in this one that these are all Jews from New York's Lower East Side, which makes the casting of the absolutely whitebread Tone and Miss Robson absurd. There's no doubt he was a serious actor, but he couldn't set foot on a stage without letting you know he he went to an Ivy League school by his demeanor. While director Paul Sloane handles the issues seriously, hearing Tone speak with Nat Pendleton, who, this movie would have us believe, grew up on the same block, destroys any illusions.
It's based on a play by Dana Burnet and George Abbot, and it had been made as a silent as FOUR WALLS. I haven't seen that version, but there are hints in this one that these are all Jews from New York's Lower East Side, which makes the casting of the absolutely whitebread Tone and Miss Robson absurd. There's no doubt he was a serious actor, but he couldn't set foot on a stage without letting you know he he went to an Ivy League school by his demeanor. While director Paul Sloane handles the issues seriously, hearing Tone speak with Nat Pendleton, who, this movie would have us believe, grew up on the same block, destroys any illusions.
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- boblipton
- May 15, 2020
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- Runtime59 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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