and how to watch this film.
3.rd Academy Awards
The movie was voted one of the 10 Best Pictures of 1930 in a poll by Film Daily critics and was one of the top 10 box office films of 1930. It was nominated for Four Academy Awards and won two, Frances Marion for her realistic script and Douglas Shearer for Sound Recording.(He won his award on the night his sister, Norma Shearer, won the Best Actress Award). It lost the Best Picture nomination and Best Actor nomination for Walter Beery. Francis Marion married director Hill during production of the film.
Walter Beery’s career rose to new heights with the success of ‘The Big House’. He had been a top supporting actor in over 150 silent movies but was overlooked when Talkies came in, but after ‘The Big House’ became a major box office hit, Beery was the world’s highest paid actor within two years.
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The Big House’ is a dramatic prison film made in 1930 during the beginning of Talkies, directed by George W. Hill and starring Wallace Beery, in the role which made him a Talkies star, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery and Leila Hyams. It is an intense, well acted drama and defined many of the prison movies which followed. The claustrophobic sets, the innovative use of sound effects and the realistic prison slang virtually created a new genre.
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In the early days of sound films, it was common for Hollywood studios to produce “Foreign Language Versions” of their films using the same sets, costumes and so on. While many of these versions no longer exist, the French, Spanish and German-language versions of The Big House survive, which are entitled Révolte dans la prison, El presidio and Menschen hinter Gittern. The French and Spanish versions are available with the original in a triple feature set from the Warner Archives.
Academy Awards
Two Wins:
Writing … Frances Marion
Best Sound, Recording … MGM Sound Dept., Douglas Shearer, Sound Director
2 Unsuccessful Nominations:
Best Picture … MGM
Best Actor … Wallace Beery
