Year: 1930
Runtime: 85 mins
Language: English
Director: John Ford
A riotous comedy about life inside adjoining men’s and women’s prison units, where baseball games and a marching band are taken very seriously. When two inmates break out, they aim to protect newly‑paroled Steve, who’s being blackmailed by his girlfriend’s former criminal associate.
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