Big House USA 1955
Broderick Crawford and his prison gang make life Hell for new inmate Ralph Meeker, a kidnapper who has a fortune stashed away. Koch filmed in Documentry style at Casabel Island Prison and in a Colorado national park. Considered excessively violent when first released, the film includes death by blowtorch and boiler vat. With William Talman, Lon Chaney Jnr as Alamo Smith, Charles Bronson as Benny Kelly and Reed Hadley.