Pre-Code Hollywood so wild it got BANNED for showing what other films wouldn't dare.
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
Acting
Pat O'Brien's simmering rage before he was a wiseguy type.
Direction
Cahn's unflinching chain-gang brutality for 1933.
Production
Authentic location shooting that studios soon abandoned.
Director
Edward L. Cahn
Pat O'Brien
Barney Slaney
Tommy Conlon
Barney as a Boy
Merna Kennedy
Marybelle Evans
Berton Churchill
Mike Slaney
Gloria Stuart
Lorraine
Tom Brown
Barton
Clarence Muse
Abraham Jackson
Douglass Dumbrille
Ed Perkins
Arthur Vinton
Grover Perkins
Noel Madison
Brownfield
Lew Kelly
Mileaway
Mickey Bennett
Grover as a Boy
Dick Winslow
Ed Perkins, as a boy
Rollo Lloyd
Zeb
Tom Ricketts
Judge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in the UK and multiple US states for its unflinching violence, this pre-Code rarity was believed lost for decades before resurfacing in the 1990s.
Gloria Stuart—later Old Rose in Titanic—plays the femme fatale here at 23, sixty years before her Oscar-nominated return.
US
