20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang
Aug 12 1933
•0h 20m
•Comedy, Music
Four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating conditions there. The changes include steak every day for dinner and stage shows for entertainment. After reading about this, the four escapees plead with the warden to take them back in. Or was this all a dream?
Cast
See allJerry Bergen
Jerry
Novia
Jerry's wife
James Baskett
Helen Pickens
Herself (singer)
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