20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American black-and-white drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the notorious maximum security prison in New York State. This movie was directed by Michael Curtiz, and it starred Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. This movie was based upon the nonfiction book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, which was written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941. Cocky Tommy Connors is sentenced to five to thirty years in Sing Sing for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. His associate, Joe Finn , promises to... use his contacts and influence to get him freed long before that, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provide special treatment is met with disdain. Connors makes trouble immediately, but several months confined to his cell changes his attitude somewhat. As the warden had predicted, Connors is only too glad to do some honest work on the rockpile after his enforced inactivity. Nonetheless, his determination to break out is unshaken. Bud Saunders , a highly educated fellow prisoner, recruits him and Hype for an escape attempt.
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| Release date: | 1932 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 78 Minutes |
| Producer: | Raymond Griffith, Darryl F. Zanuck, Robert Lord |
| Editor: | George Amy |
| Music by: | Bernhard Kaun |
| Cinematography: | Barney McGill |
| Screenplay by: | Brown Holmes, Robert Lord, Courtney Terrett, Wilson Mizner |
| Adapted from: | Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing |