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Summary:
Gripping portrayal of the men who await execution in a prison death house. The guards treat the prisoners with such callous disregard that the men finally retaliate and set themselves free holding the guards as hostages.
Notes:
Age group: NR.
Downloadable video file.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: OverDrive Media Console (file size: 364866KB).
Title from title screen (viewed on May 29, 2007).
Howard Phillips, Preston S. Foster, George E. Stone, Noel Madison, Alan Roscoe, Paul Fix, Al Hill, Daniel L. Haynes, Frank Sheridan.
Based on the play of the same title by John Wexley.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1932.
Also available as VHS.
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