20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing1932

Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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 Curt… more »



The Warden - Paul Long:
Listen, Finn, I'm running this prison, and while I'm running it, I'll run it without politicians and without bribes. People on the outside are supposed to be created free and equal, but they aren't. Here they really are. One inmate's as good as another inmate, but no better. Now clear out and don't come back! When you get back to yur ward, tell those boys you were talking to about that. I don't want any of them around here any more than I want a flock of maggots! And if Connors's got any ideas that he's going to get any favors, he'll find out differently right away.

Joe Finn:
But you don't understand!

The Warden - Paul Long:
[Dismissively] That's all.

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