Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
- prison
- war veteran
- blackmail
- hamburger
- based on true story
- chain gang
- fugitive
- pre-code
- escaped prisoner
- reverend
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Preston Foster — Pete
- Allen Jenkins — Barney Sykes
- Berton Churchill — The Judge
- Edward Ellis — Bomber Wells
- David Landau — The Warden
- Hale Hamilton — Rev. Allen
- Sally Blane — Alice
- Louise Carter — Mother
- Everett Brown — Sebastian T. Yale - Strong Prisoner
- Willard Robertson — Prison Board Chairman
- Robert McWade — F.E. Ramsey
- Directed
- Mervyn LeRoy
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 234 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
