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Murder in the Big House

Murder in the Big House1942

★6.859 minActionAdventureCrime

When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

Director

B. Reeves Eason

Writer

Raymond L. Schrock

Score

Max Steiner William Lava Friedrich Hollaender

Stars

Faye Emerson Van Johnson George Meeker

Cast41

Faye Emerson
as Gladys Wayne
Van Johnson
as Bert Bell
George Meeker
as 'Scoop' Conner
Frank Wilcox
as Randall
Tod Andrews
as Dapper Dan Malloy (as Michael Ames)
Roland Drew
as Mile-Away Gordon
Ruth Ford
as Irene Gordon
Joseph Crehan
as Ainslee
William Gould
as Prison Warden
Joe Devlin
as Motorcycle cop / Mulligan - Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Douglas Wood
as Burgen
John Maxwell
as Prison Doctor
Patrick McVey
as Chief Electrician (as Pat McVeigh)
Dick Rich
as Death House Guard
Fred Kelsey
as "Screw"
William Phillips
as Mike - Henchman (as Bill Phillips)
Jack Mower
as Ramstead - Captain of the Guards
Creighton Hale
as Ritter - Warden's Secretary
Henry Hall
as Chaplain
Walter Brooke
as Reporter (uncredited)
V
Virgil Cain
as Reporter (uncredited)
D
Dick Chandlee
as Newsboy (uncredited)
B
Bill Chaney
as Copyboy (uncredited)
Bill Edwards
as Reporter (uncredited)
Sol Gorss
as Guard with Visitor Records (uncredited)
E
Eddie Graham
as Reporter (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
as Reporter (uncredited)
William Hopper
as Reporter (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
as Reporter (uncredited)
Hank Mann
as Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
as Reporter (uncredited)
Ray Montgomery
as Young Reporter (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
as Guard (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
as Reporter (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
as Executioner (uncredited)
D
Don Phillips
as Reporter (uncredited)
C
Cliff Saum
as Second Process Server (uncredited)
W
Wallace Scott
as Slim (uncredited)
D
Don Turner
as Reporter (uncredited)
Leo White
as First Process Server (uncredited)
J
Jack Wise
as Reporter (uncredited)

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