The year 1933, available to sample into March during Film Forum's appealing 66-film program, was Hollywood's last risqué hurrah before the Production Code put its stranglehold on film output for decades to come.
Political corruption, killings, predator bosses, vigilante solutions, and oodles of undies still featured prominently on American screens. Prison dramas had also been a thriving film sub-genre ever since Frances Marion won an Oscar for writing MGM's The Big House two years before. Michael Curtiz's 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, shown this Tuesday, is a powerful film, and Spencer Tracy's breakthrough performance as convict Tommy Connors cannot be ignored, but reformer warden Lewis E. Lawes, on whose book the movie was based, weighed on the production ...
Political corruption, killings, predator bosses, vigilante solutions, and oodles of undies still featured prominently on American screens. Prison dramas had also been a thriving film sub-genre ever since Frances Marion won an Oscar for writing MGM's The Big House two years before. Michael Curtiz's 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, shown this Tuesday, is a powerful film, and Spencer Tracy's breakthrough performance as convict Tommy Connors cannot be ignored, but reformer warden Lewis E. Lawes, on whose book the movie was based, weighed on the production ...
- 2/20/2013
- Village Voice
Yes, they do show prison movies in prison.
So reports Dawson Brown, acting superintendent of that famous prison in Ossining, who will participate in a panel discussion following a showing of "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" to a less captive audience in the city Wednesday.
The 1933 prison drama, with Spencer Tracy as a convict and Bette Davis as his moll, is being shown as part of the Con Film Festival, running through May 21 at Film Forum in lower Manhattan.
"20,000 Years" is based on a book by Brown's predecessor, Lewis E. Lawes, a noted reformer who...
So reports Dawson Brown, acting superintendent of that famous prison in Ossining, who will participate in a panel discussion following a showing of "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" to a less captive audience in the city Wednesday.
The 1933 prison drama, with Spencer Tracy as a convict and Bette Davis as his moll, is being shown as part of the Con Film Festival, running through May 21 at Film Forum in lower Manhattan.
"20,000 Years" is based on a book by Brown's predecessor, Lewis E. Lawes, a noted reformer who...
- 5/11/2009
- by By LOU LUMENICK
- NYPost.com
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