This pre-code movie about life on a chain-gang is brilliant and
extremely hard-hitting. The director was the underrated Rowland Brown
and he certainly doesn't pull any punches in showing the horrors of
prison life at the time. Richard Dix is the prisoner who leads the
revolt against the treatment meted out by the authorities. If the acting
in general is mostly crude it's very much in keeping with the
sensational material and if this prison picture isn't as well known as,
say, "The Big House", it's every bit as good even if the gay caricature,
(why did there always have to be one), is somewhat offensive.
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