Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

San Quentin (1937)

San Quentin poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A prison captain struggles with new reforms at San Quentin while dealing with a convict who is the brother of the woman he loves.

tensegrittyatmosphericmelancholicrestrainedearnest

What happens

San Quentin is a 1937 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan. It was shot on location at San Quentin State Prison. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?