San Quentin is a 1937 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan. It was shot on location at San Quentin State Prison. Pat O'Brien an ex-Army officer , who becomes chief of the guard at San Quentin State Prison gets acquainted with May Kennedy who works as a singer in a San-Francisco night-club. On that same evening Red Kennedy her brother having been on the run from the police is arrested at the night club where he came to see his sister. Red Kennedy arrives a few days later together with another new inmate "Sailor Boy" Hansen... in San Quentin. After a fight the first day with Sailor in the courtyard of the prison, he meets Jameson the new "Captain of the Yard" who punishes him. May gets engaged with Jameson, she soon finds out what he couldn't tell her before : he is the leading officer of the prison, in charge of the prisoners. Having been selected for working outside the prison with Red in a "road gang" which constructs a new road, Sailor makes a plan to break out.
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| Release date: | August 7, 1937 |
| Directed by: | Lloyd Bacon |
| Runtime: | 70 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hal B. Wallis, Jack Warner |
| Cinematography: | Sidney Hickox |
| Estimated budget: | $365,000 |
| Genre: | Action |