20,000 Years in Sing Sing
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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.
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Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
Written by | Courtney Terrett (adaptation) Robert Lord (adaptation) |
Screenplay by | Wilson Mizner Brown Holmes |
Based on | Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing 1932 book by Lewis E. Lawes |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited) Raymond Griffith (uncredited supervising producer) Robert Lord (uncredited associate producer) |
Starring | Spencer Tracy Bette Davis Louis Calhern |
Cinematography | Barney McGill |
Edited by | George Amy |
Music by | Bernhard Kaun |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $234,000[1] |
Box office | $935,000[1] |
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The film was remade by First National Pictures as Castle on the Hudson in 1940, starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.[2]