20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Mystery, Crime and Noir
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1h 18m
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
The film is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, starring Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and based upon a nonfiction book written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941. It was originally intended for James Cagney, but at the time Cagney was having one of his many misunderstandings with Jack L. Warner.
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