Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueBrash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.
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- Warden Long's Daughter
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Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesWriter Lewis E. Lawes was still warden of Sing Sing prison during filming and allowed the crew to film inside and outside the prison, including mob scenes.
- GaffesWhen the warden's letter of resignation is shown, it's addressed to "The Honorable Governor Strang" in Albany. The letter is dated June 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt (soon to be elected President) was Governor from 1929-1933.
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Tommy Connors: I'd give a million bucks to be alone with you for a little while honey. Do you love me?
Fay Wilson: Yeah.
Tommy Connors: Well don't come up here dolled up like that anymore.
Fay Wilson: Why, Tommy?
Tommy Connors: What's the matter with you? Do you want me to go crazy? You have me foaming at the mouth like a cream puff.
Fay Wilson: On, I'm sorry, Tommy, I never thought about that. I just want to look nice for you.
Tommy Connors: That's alright. But, you know you don't have to come up here looking too hot!
- ConnexionsFeatured in Secret Service of the Air (1939)
- Bandes originalesSpirit of Independence
(1912) (uncredited)
Music by Abe Holzmann
Played during the baseball and marching montage
It's based on a book by the warden at Sing Sing, portrayed by Arthur Byron who plays the role tough but fair. Tommy Conners (Spencer Tracy) is sentenced to 5-30 years for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. He arrives with a bad attitude, and no wonder as he is given a prison uniform big enough for three Spencer Tracys. He is confined to his cell and, true to the warden's prediction, is eventually happy to work on the rock pile just to get out of that cell.
Tommy is still determined to get out though and falls in with a group planning to break out, but when the actual time comes to escape he refuses to go along with the escapees, who wind up dying in the attempt. This isn't to say he's a reformed guy at this point. I think he is somewhat confused as to why he refused himself, and attributes it to Saturdays being bad luck for him. However it is probably that he is beginning to see a correlation between his actions and consequences, and he is unsure about the consequences of a prison break.
Over time, Tommy and the warden both come to the conclusion that the other is not such a bad guy. And then comes the news that Tommy's girlfriend Fay (Bette Davis) has been injured in an automobile accident and is not expected to live. At this point the warden makes a decision that should have been suicide for his career no matter what happens. Complications ensue. Where Warner's earlier film "I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" revealed the brutality of prison, this film suggested a remedy.
James Cagney was supposed to play the role of Tommy, but he and WB were having one of the first of their many contract disagreements, so Tracy got the job since he had a resume of playing convicts both on stage and screen, and was thus borrowed from Fox. Once again director Michael Curtiz paid attention to photographic detail by working with actual photographs of Ossining prison for art design and using the sets for the 1930 film The Big House, which were still standing at MGM.
The result is one of those relatively short but powerful precodes Warner Brothers was known for.
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- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
- Lieux de tournage
- Sing Sing Penitentiary - 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, New York, États-Unis(exteriors: interiors, mob scenes)
- Société de production
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- Durée1 heure 18 minutes
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- Rapport de forme
- 1.37 : 1