{{Short description|1931 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = Men Behind Bars |image =File:Men Behind Bars.jpg |caption = |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Menschen hinter Gittern}} |director = [[Pál Fejös]] |producer = [[Irving Thalberg]] |writer = E. W. Brandes<br>[[Walter Hasenclever]]<br>[[Frances Marion]]<br>[[Ernst Toller]] |starring = [[Heinrich George]]<br>[[Gustav Diessl]]<br>[[Egon von Jordan]] |cinematography = [[J. Peverell Marley]]<br>[[Harold Wenstrom]] |editing = [[Blanche Sewell]] |studio = [[Cosmopolitan Productions]] |distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] |released = {{Film date|1931|6|24}} |runtime = 109 minutes |country = United States |language = German }}
'''''Men Behind Bars''''' (German: '''''Menschen hinter Gittern''''') is a 1931 German-language American [[Pre-code Hollywood|Pre-Code]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Pál Fejös]] and starring [[Heinrich George]], [[Gustav Diessl]] and [[Egon von Jordan]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=William Grange|last=Grange|first=William|title=Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2008|page=367|isbn=978-0810859678|lccn=2008008116}}</ref> It is the [[German language]] version of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]'s ''[[The Big House (1930 film)|The Big House]]''. In the early years of [[Sound film|sound]] before [[Dubbing (filmmaking)|dubbing]] became widespread, it was common to make films in multiple languages. It premiered in [[Berlin]] on June 24, 1931.
==Synopsis== The convicts in an overcrowded American [[prison]] plot to rise up and stage a massive [[jailbreak]].
==Cast== *[[Heinrich George]] as Butch *[[Gustav Diessl]] as Morris *[[Egon von Jordan]] as Kent Marlow *[[Anton Pointner]] as Supervisor Wallace *[[Dita Parlo]] as Annie Marlow *[[Paul Morgan (actor)|Paul Morgan]] as Putnam *[[Herman Bing]] as lawyer *[[Peter Erkelenz]] as Der Gefängnisdirektor *[[Karl Etlinger]] as Gefängniswärter *[[Adolf E. Licho]] as Annie's father *[[Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]] as Oliver
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0022140}}
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