The Big House (1930)

We're off to the slammer today for a 1930s taste of life behind bars. This could very well be Orange is the New Black and White, but it's the much more sensible The Big House

Finding himself becoming the latest resident of the Big House is Kent (Robert Montgomery) for driving while drunk and killing somebody in the process. Quite how he managed that, I'm not sure. Didn't cars only go 5 miles per hour back then, and they had a man with a flag walking in front of them? Unless Kent actually ran over the flag man? Who knows? Anyway, it looks like Kent is being lined up to be our hero, but instead, he turns out to be a bit of a snake-like weasel.

Kent is plopped into a cell with Morgan (Chester Morris) and Butch (Wallace Beery). Morgan is tough but has a reasonable side. Butch is angry and shouty.