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20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

★ 6.8Approved78 minDirector: Michael Curtiz

1932 film

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, starring Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the nonfiction book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941.

The film was remade by First National Pictures as Castle on the Hudson in 1940, starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is 20,000 Years in Sing Sing about?
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) — Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. A trouble maker, he gets ninety days in solitary and no parole. His girlfriend Fay is injured and Warden Long lets Tom visit her on his honor to return. During a fight with m
Is 20,000 Years in Sing Sing based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
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