Geronimo1967
This is one of my favourite early examples of the dog-eat-dog world in prison as the young Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) is sent down for a decade after a road accident led to a fatality. Not surprisingly, hes as anxious as hell - not least when he learns that he is to share facilities with Morgan (Chester Morris) and convicted murderer Butch (Wallace Beery). The governor (Lewis Stone) is broadly sympathetic, as is the chief warder (George F. Marlon) as they reckon putting this naive and impressionable young man in with folks like this isnt going to aid his chances of survival, much less rehabilitation. Quickly, though, Marlowe learns there is a code of practice to be honoured here, and the first rule is never welch to the authorities. When h...