Mutiny in the Big House (1939)

Directors

William Nigh

Cast

Barton MacLane, Charles Bickford, I. Stanford Jolley, Nigel De Brulier, Wheeler Vivian Oakman

The story

Father Joe Collins is a kindly but realistic prison chaplain who tries to bring some humanity behind the grim walls of a major penitentiary. One of his success stories is "Dad" Schultz, a kindly convict who was released after 20 years but found the outside world so overwhelming that he had a nervous breakdown. Father Collins convinces the prison officials to take him back as a civilian employee/gardener, so he will "feel at home".

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