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68% Critic Match
Road to the Big House
“He Took A Short-Cut thru the Darkness of Gangland”
6.8 / 10• 1947• 1h 14m•NR• English
Crime
Storyline
A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
Cast & Crew
John Shelton
Eddie Clark
Lead
Ann Doran
Agnes Clark
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Butch McQuinn
Richard Bailey
Clyde Sutter
Joseph Allen
George Bates
Rory Mallinson
Fred
EF
Eddie Fields
Kelvin
WB
Walden Boyle
Prosecutor
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Walter Colmes's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Road to the Big House is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
