Castle on the Hudson
| Castle on the Hudson | |
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| Directed by | Anatole Litvak |
| Produced by |
Anatole Litvak Samuel Bischoff |
| Written by |
Lewis E. Lawes (book) Seton I. Miller Brown Holmes Courtney Terrett |
| Starring |
John Garfield Ann Sheridan Pat O'Brien Burgess Meredith |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Castle on the Hudson is a 1940 American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. A thief gets sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden. The film was based on the book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, written by Lewis E. Lawes, who was in real life the warden of the notorious prison and did improve conditions for the inmates.
Cast
- John Garfield as Tommy Gordon
- Ann Sheridan as Kay Manners, his girlfriend
- Pat O'Brien as Warden Walter Long
- Burgess Meredith as Steve Rockford
- Henry O'Neill as District Attorney
- Jerome Cowan as Ed Crowley
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Mike Cagle
- John Litel as Prison Chaplain
- Margot Stevenson as Ann Rockford
- Willard Robertson as Detective Ragan
- Edward Pawley as Black Jack
See also
- List of American films of 1940
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, an earlier film also based on the Lawes book.
External links
- Castle on the Hudson at the TCM Movie Database
- Castle on the Hudson at the Internet Movie Database
- Castle on the Hudson at AllMovie
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