The Big House 1930  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Leila Hyams, George F. Marion, J.C. Nugent, Karl Dane, DeWitt Jennings, Claire McDowell, Matthew Betz, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Eddie Foyer, Tom Wilson, Roscoe Ates
Based on a violent prison break in 1929, this film set the standard for prison movies that followed. Kent (a young Robert Montgomery) is sent to prison for killing pedestrians while driving drunk. There he is amidst hardened criminals in a tough, overcrowded environment. Mean criminal Butch (Wallace Beery) plans the breakout in this violent (for that time) movie. The film won Academy Awards for Best Sound and Writing; Beery was nominated for Best Actor and the film was nominated for Best Picture.
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Min and Bill 1930  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Frank McGlynn Sr., Don Dillaway, Russell Hopton, DeWitt Jennings, Jack Pennick, Gretta Gould
Marie Dressler won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her role as Min, the salty owner of a seaside inn who goes to extremes protecting those she loves.
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The Secret Six 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan, DeWitt Jennings, Frank McGlynn Sr., Paul Hurst, Louis Natheaux, Murray Kinnell, Fletcher Norton, Theodore von Eltz
When bootlegger/cafe owner Johnny Franks (Ralph Bellamy) recruits Louis "Louie" Scorpio (Wallace Berry) to join his gang, which is run by crooked lawyer Richard "Newt" Newton (Lewis Stone), they threaten to undermine Chicago's civil order. The police chief creates a vigilante group of six to go up against the gangsters, and, with help from newspapermen Carl Luckner (Clark Gable) and Hank Rogers (Johnny Mack Brown), they set out to bring order to the city.
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| 1. The Big House (1930)
2. Hell Divers (1932)
3. Min and Bill (1930)
4. The Secret Six (1931)
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