A DA becomes warden and faces the man he put away. Awkward.
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
Direction
Brahm's shadow-drenched corridors before his Hitchcock era.
Acting
Connolly's sweaty desperation as authority crumbles.
Director
John Brahm
Walter Connolly
Dist. Atty. Thomas Mathews
John Howard
William Jordan
Jean Parker
Elizabeth Mathews
Robert Barrat
Prison Yard Capt. Grady
Marc Lawrence
Jack Hawkins
Arthur Hohl
Finch
Charles Halton
Leonard Nettleford
Edward Van Sloan
Dr. Rinewulf
Marjorie Main
Miss Katie Mathews
Stanley Andrews
Prison Captain Dorn (uncredited)
Ward Bond
Red Parsons - Prison Barber (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lewis E. Lawes, actual Sing Sing warden, consulted on prison authenticity—then sued when the film made wardens look corrupt.
Brahm's rapid cutting during the riot scene directly influenced his later work on The Lodger and Hangover Square.
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