Within These Walls (1945)
INSIDE THE "BIG HOUSE"!
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 11M
Director : H. Bruce Humberstone
Escritor : Eugene Ling, Wanda Tuchock
Sinopsis
Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There Michael imposes a strict regime of discipline on the inmates. He is similarly rigid and harsh with his own two children Tommie and Anne. However, his son Tommie Howland eventually ends up incarcerated in his father's prison.
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
Lawmen free a convict to hunt his ex-cellmate.
El 25 de mayo de 1988, Richard Kuklinski fue acusado de asesinato múltiple y sentenciado a cadena perpetua. Esto puso fin a 30 años de crímenes del llamado hombre de hielo, por su estratagema de congelar los cadáveres de sus víctimas y ocultar la fecha real de sus muertes.
A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of a new, tougher, head of security arrives to take up her new job....
Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment. The gold was never recovered, so the Texas Ranger chief has Ranger Panhandle Perkins planted in the prison as Charley's cell-mate in the hopes Charley will tell him where the loot is buried. Charley has a map of the location but is afraid it may be discovered so, while Panhandle is asleep, he draws a copy of it on the sole of Panhandle's foot. Charley then destroys the map but intends to keep "Panhandle" close to him upon their release from prison. Charley makes Panhandle accompany him back to the town where the rest of the hold-up gang is holed up. They go to the saloon owned by Steve Martin, also a member of the hold-up gang, but Charley was the one who buried the loot before he was captured and Charley has no intentions of divulging the location of the gold. Written by Les Adams
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