Crime ·Drama · United States of America · 1932 · 1h 18m

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

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Director
Michael Curtiz
Cast
Spencer Tracy as Tommy Connors Bette Davis as Fay Wilson Arthur Byron as Warden Paul Long Lyle Talbot as Bud Saunders Warren Hymer as Hype Louis Calhern as Joe Finn
Crew
Barney McGill — Director of Photography George Amy — Editor Bernhard Kaun — Original Music Composer Brown Holmes — Screenplay Wilson Mizner — Screenplay Lewis E. Lawes — Novel
Tagline

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

Synopsis

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

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Mood & Themes
prisonbased on novel or bookgangsterdeath rowjail guardself-defenseelectric chaircode of honorwardensing singpre-codehoodlum
Key Collaborators
Michael Curtiz Director Barney McGill Director of Photography George Amy Editor Bernhard Kaun Original Music Composer Brown Holmes Screenplay Wilson Mizner Screenplay Lewis E. Lawes Novel Darryl F. Zanuck Producer Orry-Kelly Costume Design
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