Best Prison Movies of the 1930s

DIRECTED_BY: Mervyn LeRoy
WRITTEN_BY: Brown Holmes,Howard J. Green
STARRING: Glenda Farrell,Paul Muni,Helen Vinson,Noel Francis,Allen Jenkins,Preston Foster,Sally Blane,Berton Churchill,Edward Ellis,Hale Hamilton
IMDB_ID: tt0023042
GENRE: Film noir,Crime Fiction,Drama,Prison film
SUBJECTS: Prison
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1932
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

Director: Louis King
Writers: Dalton Trumbo
Stars: Donald Woods,Kay Linaker
IMDb ID: tt0028190
Genres: Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1936-03-28
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: William Keighley
Writers: Jerome Odlum,Charles Perry,Warren B. Duff,Norman Reilly Raine
Stars: James Cagney,George Raft,George Bancroft,Jane Bryan,Victor Jory,Stanley Ridges,Alan Baxter,Paul Hurst,Willard Robertson,John Wray
IMDb ID: tt0031260
Genres: Crime Fiction,Thriller,Prison film,Drama,Gangster Film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1939-07-22
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: William Keighley,Howard Bretherton
Writers: Sidney Sutherland,Brown Holmes,William McGrath
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck,Lillian Roth,Lyle Talbot,Preston Foster,Dorothy Burgess,Maude Eburne,Ruth Donnelly,Harold Huber,Robert McWade,Barbara Stanwyck
IMDb ID: tt0024238
Genres: Women in prison film,Drama,Crime Fiction,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1933-02-04
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: Howard Higgin
STARRING: Pat O'Brien,Bette Davis
IMDB_ID: tt0022991
GENRE: Film noir,Crime Fiction,Juvenile Delinquency Film,Drama,Prison film
SUBJECTS: Prison
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1932
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

DIRECTED_BY: John Ford
STARRING: Gloria Stuart,Warner Baxter,Francis McDonald,Frank McGlynn, Sr.,John McGuire,Claude Gillingwater,Francis Ford,Arthur Byron,O.P. Heggie
IMDB_ID: tt0028141
GENRE: Docudrama,Drama,Biographical film,Prison film
SUBJECTS: Prison
INITIAL_RELEASE_DATE: 1936
COUNTRY: United States of America
LANGUAGE: English Language

Director: George Fitzmaurice
Stars: Dolores del Río,Edmund Lowe,Henry Kolker
IMDb ID: tt0020663
Genres: Musical,Melodrama,Romance Film,Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1930-05-03
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: George B. Seitz
Stars: Walter Pidgeon,Rita Johnson
IMDb ID: tt0031014
Genres: Drama,Crime Fiction,Thriller,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1939-06-09
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: James Cruze
Stars: Marian Marsh,Henry Wilcoxon,Minerva Urecal,Frank Reicher,Ben Welden,John Arledge,Selmer Jackson,Addison Richards,Fred Kohler Jr.,Bernadene Hayes
IMDb ID: tt0030627
Genres: Romance Film,Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1938
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Gordon Wiles
Stars: Nestor Paiva,Dorothy Comingore,Clarence Muse,Alexander Leftwich
IMDb ID: tt0030628
Genres: Thriller,Drama,Crime Fiction,Prison film,Gangster Film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1938
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Louis King
IMDb ID: tt0030626
Genres: Adventure Film,Drama,Crime Fiction,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1938-06-17
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: James Patrick Hogan
Stars: Marsha Hunt,Robert Cummings
IMDb ID: tt0027253
Genres: Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1936
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Paul Fejos
Writers: Frances Marion,E.W. Brandes,Ernst Toller,Walter Hasenclever
Stars: Heinrich George,Gustav Diessl,Egon von Jordan,Anton Pointner,Dita Parlo,Paul Morgan,Herman Bing,Peter Erkelenz,Karl Etlinger,Adolf E. Licho
IMDb ID: tt0022140
Genres: Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1931-06-24
Country: United States of America
Language: German Language

Director: Christy Cabanne
Writers: John Twist
Stars: Preston Foster,Ann Dvorak,John Beal,Ray Mayer,Gordon Jones,Russell Hopton,J. Carrol Naish,Paul Hurst,Frank Jenks,John Wray
IMDb ID: tt0028484
Genres: Drama,Crime Fiction,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1937-01-01
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Lew Landers
Writers: Lionel Houser
Stars: Sally Eilers,Louis Hayward,Dawn Evelyn Paris,Esther Dale,Lee Patrick,Leona Roberts,George Irving,Richard Bond,Netta Packer,Rita La Roy
IMDb ID: tt0030010
Genres: Romance Film,Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1938-03-18
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: William Nigh
Stars: William Royle,Barton MacLane,Dennis Moore,George Cleveland,Charles Bickford,Charley Foy,Pat Moriarity
IMDb ID: tt0031690
Genres: Crime Fiction,Drama,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1939-10-25
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Charles Vidor
Stars: Walter Connolly
IMDb ID: tt0032027
Genres: Drama,Action Film,Crime Fiction,Prison film
Subjects: Prison
Release date: 1939
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language