- Castle on the Hudson
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name = Castle on the Hudson
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director =Anatole Litvak
producer = Anatole Litvak
writer =Lewis E. Lawes (book)Seton I. Miller Brown Holmes Courtney Terrett
starring =John Garfield Ann Sheridan
Pat O'BrienBurgess Meredith
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distributor =Warner Bros.
released =February 17 1940
runtime = 77 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:86816
imdb_id = 0032315"Castle on the Hudson" is a 1940
drama film directed byAnatole Litvak and starringJohn Garfield ,Ann Sheridan , and Pat O'Brien. A thief gets sent toSing 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 byLewis E. Lawes , who was in real life the warden of the notorious prison and did improve conditions for the inmates.Cast
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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 Jackee also
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing ", an earlier film also based on the Lawes book.External links
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