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A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.

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I'm gonna kidnap a kidnapper for the money he kidnapped for. Big House, U.S.A. is directed by Howard W. Koch and written by John C. Higgins, George George and George Slavin. It stars Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, William Talman, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bronson and Felicia Farr. Music is by Paul Dunlap and cinematography by Gordon Avil. A Kidnap, A Ransom and A Prison Break = Powder Keg. Out of Bel-Air Productions, Big House, U.S.A. is a relentlessly tough and gritty picture. Beginning with the kidnapping of a young boy from a country camp, Howard Koch's film has no intentions of making you feel good about things. Deaths do occur and we feel the impact wholesale, tactics and actions perpetrated by the bad guys in the play punch the gut, while the finale, if somewhat expected in the scheme of good versus bad classic movies, still leaves a chill that is hard to shake off. Split into two halves, we first observe the kidnap and ransom part of the story, then for the second part we enter prison where we become cell mates with five tough muthas. Crawford, Chaney, Meeker, Bronson and Talman, it's a roll call of macho nastiness unfurled by character actors worthy of the Big House surroundings. The locations play a big part in the pervading sense of doom that hangs over proceedings, Cascabel Island Prison (really McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary) is every bit as grim as you would expect it to be, and the stunning vistas of Royal Gorge in Colorado proves to be a foreboding backdrop for much of the picture. Although it sadly lacks chiaroscuro photography, something which would have been perfect for this movie and elevated it to the standard of Brute Force and Riot in Cell Block 11, Avil's photography still has the requisite starkness about it. While Dunlap scores it with escalating menace. Not all the performances are top draw, more so on the good guy side of the fence, and some characters such as Chaney's Alamo Smith don't get nearly enough lines to spit, but this is still one bad boy of an experience and recommended to fans of old black and white crims and coppers movies. 8/10

Movie details Big House U.S.A.

Release : 1955-03-03
Genre : Action, Crime, Thriller
Runtime : 83 minutes
Company : Bel-Air Productions

Cast

	Broderick Crawford	as	Rollo Lamar
	Ralph Meeker	as	Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman
	Reed Hadley	as	Special FBI Agent James Madden
	William Talman	as	William 'Machine Gun' Mason
	Lon Chaney, Jr.	as	Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith (as Lon Chaney)
	Charles Bronson	as	Benny Kelly
	Felicia Farr	as	Emily Euridice Evans (as Randy Farr)
	Roy Roberts	as	Chief Ranger Will Erickson
	Willis Bouchey	as	Robertson Lambert (as Willis B. Bouchey)
	Peter J. Votrian	as	Danny Lambert (as Peter Votrian)
	Robert Bray	as	Ranger McCormick

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