The Big House

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

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.