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The Big House (1930 film)

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The Big House is a 1930 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by George Hill, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and Robert Montgomery. [1]

59 relations: Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, Angelo Rossitto, Blanche Sewell, Chester Morris, Chris-Pin Martin, Claire McDowell, Cosmopolitan Productions, Crime film, David Shipman (writer), DeWitt Jennings, Douglas Shearer, Edgar Dearing, Ethan Laidlaw, Frances Marion, George F. Marion, George Hill (director), George Magrill, Harry Wilson (actor), Herbert Prior, Hollywood, Irving Thalberg, J. C. Nugent, John Mosher, Joseph Dubin, Joseph W. Farnham, Karl Dane, Leila Hyams, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, Lewis Stone, Lon Chaney, Louis Natheaux, Martin Flavin, Matthew Betz, Men Behind Bars, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Vavitch, Mordaunt Hall, Multiple-language version, Pre-Code Hollywood, Prison film, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Robert Montgomery (actor), Roscoe Ates, Solitary confinement, Steven H. Scheuer, The Film Daily, The Motion Picture Guide, ..., The New York Times, The New York Times Company, The New Yorker, Tom Kennedy (actor), Tom Wilson (actor), Turner Classic Movies, TV Guide, Variety (magazine), Wallace Beery. Expand index (9 more) »

Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Angelo Rossitto

Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (February 18, 1908 – September 21, 1991) was an American dwarf actor and voice artist.

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Blanche Sewell

Blanche Sewell (October 27, 1898 – February 2, 1949) was an American film editor.

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Chester Morris

John Chester Brooks Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor.

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Chris-Pin Martin

Chris-Pin Martin (November 19, 1893 – June 27, 1953) was an American character actor whose specialty lay in portraying comical Mexicans, particularly sidekicks in The Cisco Kid film series.

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Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell (November 2, 1877 – October 23, 1966) was an American actress of the silent era.

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Cosmopolitan Productions

Cosmopolitan Productions, also often referred to as Cosmopolitan Pictures, was an American film company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923 and Hollywood until 1938.

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Crime film

Crime cinema, in the broadest sense, is a cinematic genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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David Shipman (writer)

David Herbert Shipman (4 November 1932 – 22 April 1996)Richard Cohen & James Ferguson accessed 23 July 2012 was an English film critic and writer, best known for his trilogy of books on film stars.

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DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American film and stage actor.

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Douglas Shearer

Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures.

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Edgar Dearing

Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films.

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Ethan Laidlaw

Ethan Laidlaw (November 25, 1899 – May 25, 1963) was an American film actor.

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Frances Marion

Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens, November 18, 1888Beauchamp. 1997 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.

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George F. Marion

George F. Marion Sr. (&ndash) was an American stage actor and director, a film actor and director of two silent films.

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George Hill (director)

George William Hill (April 25, 1895 – August 10, 1934) was an American film director and cinematographer.

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George Magrill

George Magrill (January 5, 1900 – May 31, 1952) was an American film actor.

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Harry Wilson (actor)

Harry Wilson (22 November 1897 – 6 September 1978) was an English character actor who appeared in over 300 films from 1928 to 1965 and proudly proclaimed himself "Hollywood's ugliest man".

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Herbert Prior

Herbert Prior (2 July 1867 – 3 October 1954) was an English silent film actor.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Irving Thalberg

Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures.

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J. C. Nugent

John Charles "J.C." Nugent (6 April 1868 – 21 April 1947), was an American actor, director, and screenwriter.

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John Mosher

John Mosher (1928–1998) was an American jazz bassist, classical bassist and composer who worked, recorded and toured with a wide range of primarily West Coast artists from the 1950s through the mid-1990s.

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Joseph Dubin

Joseph Simon Dubin (June 2, 1900 – January 16, 1961) was an American composer and orchestrator, scoring and orchestrating more than 200 motion pictures during his career.

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Joseph W. Farnham

Joseph White Farnham (December 2, 1884 – June 2, 1931) was an American playwright and a film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s.

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Karl Dane

Karl Dane (born Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb, 12 October 1886 – 14 April 1934) was a Danish-American comedian and actor known for his work in American films, mainly of the silent film era.

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Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American model, vaudeville and film actress, who came from a show business family.

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Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide was a book-format collection of movie capsule reviews that began in 1969, was updated biennially after 1978, and then annually after 1986.

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Lewis Stone

Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor known for his role as Judge James Hardy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Andy Hardy film series and as an MGM contract player.

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Lon Chaney

Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter.

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Louis Natheaux

Louis Natheaux (born Louis F. Natho; December 10, 1894 – August 23, 1942) was an American film actor.

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Martin Flavin

Martin Archer Flavin (November 2, 1883 – December 27, 1967) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Matthew Betz

Matthew Betz (September 13, 1881 – January 26, 1938) was an American film actor.

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Men Behind Bars

Men Behind Bars (German:Menschen hinter Gittern) is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Pál Fejös and starring Heinrich George, Gustav Diessl and Egon von Jordan.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Vavitch

Mikhail Vavich (Михаил Иванович Вавич) was a Russian actor, operetta and singer.

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Mordaunt Hall

Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934.

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Multiple-language version

A multiple-language version film, often abbreviated to MLV, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, produced in several different languages for international markets.

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Pre-Code Hollywood

Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929LaSalle (2002), pg.

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Prison film

A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape.

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Robert Emmett O'Connor

Robert Emmett O'Connor (March 18, 1885 – September 4, 1962) was an American film actor.

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Robert Montgomery (actor)

Robert Montgomery (born Henry Montgomery Jr.; May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American film and television actor, director, and producer.

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Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily featured in western films and television.

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Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact, often with the exception of members of prison staff, for 22–24 hours a day, with a sentence ranging from days to decades.

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Steven H. Scheuer

Steven Henry Scheuer (January 9, 1926 – May 31, 2014) was a film and television historian and critic.

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The Film Daily

The Film Daily was a daily publication that existed from 1915 to 1970 in the United States.

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The Motion Picture Guide

The Motion Picture Guide is a film reference work first published by Cinebooks in 1985.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Tom Kennedy (actor)

Tom Kennedy (July 15, 1885 – October 6, 1965) was an American actor known for his roles in Hollywood comedies from the silent days, with such producers as Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, mainly supporting lead comedians such as the Marx Brothers, W. C. Fields, Mabel Normand, Shemp Howard, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges. Kennedy also played dramatic roles as a supporting actor.

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Tom Wilson (actor)

Tom Wilson (August 27, 1880 – February 19, 1965) was an American film actor.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Wallace Beery

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_House_(1930_film)

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