Big House, U.S.A. Blu-ray Movie

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Big House, U.S.A. (1955)

When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he goes for help. Instead, Barker calls the father and demands $200,000 ransom. The money is delivered and Barker buries most of it. Meanwhile, the panicky boy has fallen from the tower to his death, and Barker drops the body off a cliff. The FBI, led by James Madden, capture Barker but can't convict him of kidnapping and he is given only five years for extortion and sent to Casabel Island Prison. There he is assigned a cell with Rollo Lambar, Alamo Smith, Benny Kelly and Machine Gun Mason. The FBI have now traced an affiliation between Barker and Emily Evans, a nurse at Danny's camp. The five cell-mates, led by Rollo, who plans to kill Benny and dress him in Barker's clothes to throw off the police, execute an underwater prison escape, and head north for the ransom money.

Starring: Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Tarmey, Lon Chaney Jr.
Director: Howard W. Koch

Film-Noir	100%
Drama	85%
Crime	36%

Specifications

Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Original aspect ratio: 1.75:1
Audio
TBA
Subtitles
None
Discs
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Playback
Region A (B, C untested)

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