Radio Pictures
Directed by Rowland Brown
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Early prison drama with brothers serving out their sentence on the chain gang. Duke is the older one and has been there awhile before his younger brother Johnny arrives. The spend the day hacking at rocks, but Johnny is soft and ends up in the hot box, a metal cage in the sun. Duke agrees to turn stool pigeon in exchange for his brother's life. When threatened with expedition and a life sentence, Johnny sets his brother free but it turns into a jail break. The happy ending was literally refilmed after a better, downbeat one, and almost ruins the movie.
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