20,000 Years in Sing Sing

About 20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Michael Curtiz's 20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 crime film. It runs 78 minutes and was released in December 1932.

Spencer Tracy takes the lead as Tommy Connors, Bette Davis as Fay Wilson, Arthur Byron as Warden Paul Long, and Lyle Talbot as Bud Saunders. Written by Brown Holmes and Wilson Mizner. The film began as a novel.

Members will find pre-code, hoodlum, death row, and self-defense in it.

The Green Mile, GoodFellas, and Lost Highway make useful companions to 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, all filed under electric chair and jail guard. It carries a NR rating.