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Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
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18 November 1955 (Belgium) moreTagline:
5 KILLER CONVICTS BREAK OUT! (original print ad - all caps) morePlot:
When young Danny Lambert (Peter Votrain) runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Typical '50's prison picture moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Broderick Crawford | ... | Rollo Lamar |
 | Ralph Meeker | ... | Geraldo 'Jerry' Barker aka Iceman |
| Reed Hadley | ... | Special FBI Agent James Madden |
| William Talman | ... | William 'Machine Gun' Mason |
 | Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith (as Lon Chaney) |
 | Charles Bronson | ... | Benny Kelly |
| Felicia Farr | ... | Emily Euridice Evans (as Randy Farr) |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Chief Ranger Will Erickson |
| Willis Bouchey | ... | Robertson Lambert (as Willis B. Bouchey) |
| Peter J. Votrian | ... | Danny Lambert (as Peter Votrian) |
 | Robert Bray | ... | Ranger McCormick |
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83 min (Turner library print)Country:
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1.75 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)Fun Stuff
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Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of equipment in foreground when the 3 escapees are talking about fishing with the park ranger on horseback. moreQuotes:
Rollo Lamar: Any of you geniuses know what "apparently" means?Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith: "Apparently?"
Rollo Lamar: Yeah.
Benny Kelly: Yeah, it means that something that ain't, looks like it is.
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As it happens I was in this picture as an extra in the early spring of 1955. I was going to high school as a sophomore at Holy Cross Abbey in Cannon City Colo. at the time when a call came in for extras for a summer camp scene.
This movie was filmed in and around the Cannon City area,Westcliffe and Royal Gorge. Broderick Crawford had a popular TV series at the time called Highway Patrol.
This was one of Charles Bronson's earliest movies, he had just done House of Wax a year or two before.
Reed Hadley also had a popular detective TV series at the time.