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San Quentin |  | Directors: Crane Wilbur, Frank Tashlin, Lloyd Bacon
Actors: Mel Blanc, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, John Litel
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 41803
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D67744D
UPC: 012569677449
EAN: 0012569677449
ASIN: B000FI9OC2
Theatrical Release Date: August 7, 1937
Release Date: July 18, 2006
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Product Description
Do the crime do the time. But what happens during the long years spent behind the walls of San Quentin? The penitentiary's new yard captain wants to make those years a time of rehabilitation rather than punishment. But not everyone's buying it. "He's just another copper to me" snarls inmate Red Kennedy. Humphrey Bogart portrays Red continuing his climb to stardom in this brisk film that's one of a string of Depression-era works combining gangster-movie elements with a Big House setting. Studio mainstay Pat O'Brien plays Steve Jameson whose carrot-and-stick reforms begin to change Red's thinking. An inmates' strike and a scripture-quoting con who swipes a rifle are among the troubles Jameson faces. And Red is another as he reverts to his old ways and makes a violent break for freedom.Running Time: 70 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569677449 Manufacturer No: 67744
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 fast paced prison drama that held my attention all the way December 21, 2009
Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service)
San Quentin has a plot that moves along briskly; great acting; good choreography; a tight script; excellent cinematography and a great script. It's one of the better 1930s prison dramas with thanks as well to pros like director Lloyd Bacon.
When the film starts we quickly meet Joe "Red" Kennedy (Bogart) and his sister May Kennedy (Ann Sheridan). Joe tries to make an escape after a robbery but gets caught in the nightclub where his sister May works as a singer. Police take Joe away and May is very upset; but she does meet Capt. Stephen Jameson (Pat O'Brien) and sparks start to fly almost instantly. May finds out that her brother "Red" has been sent to San Quentin--but what she doesn't know is that Stephen is holding information back from her--he's the new big boss running San Quentin. Stephen has good reason to hold this back from May as May hates prison guards and staff and he's afraid of rejection if she knew he was the boss running San Quentin where "Red" is serving time.
Eventually May gets caught passing some money to her brother "Red" so that he can buy cigarettes and chocolate inside prison. It is then that May is sent to see the Captain--and that's when May finds out that the boss of the prison is the very man she's been seeing! May chooses to break it off with Stephen; and Stephen continues to run the prison his way, as best he knows how, laying down strict law and order without using excessively cruel methods that so many other prison chiefs used.
Of course, many things happen both good and bad as the plot unfolds. May, Stephen, "Red," and a few other inmates find themselves in circumstances that create good drama; I was on the edge of my seat all the way through! Look also for a fine performance by Joseph Sawyer as 'Sailor Boy' Hansen.
The DVD has some nice extra features. There's "Warner Night at the Movies" which includes a vintage newsreel, the theatrical trailer for the movie Kid Galahad and even more; and there's a commentary by Patricia King Hanson. "Welcome to the Bighouse" is a good featurette about prison dramas and "Breakdowns of 1937" has funny bloopers cut out of vintage movies!
San Quentin is a relatively early prison drama that I highly recommend for fans of the actors in this movie; and of course classic movie fans would do well to add this to their collections.
 Prison Is Not A Nice Place November 9, 2009
Lionel Bourg (Natchitoches, LA---USA)
SAN QUENTIN(1937)---Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Barton MacLane
One of the lesser entries in the Warner Bros. "gangster film" cycle of the 30's. Pat O'Brien plays the new Yard Captain at San Quentin who believes in trying to rehabilitate the inmates instead of just "punishing" them. Bogart plays inmate, Red Kennedy; to Kennedy, O'Brien is, "Just another copper!". Barton MacLane plays a prison guard who isn't buying any of O'Brien's "rehabilitation" ideas and believes in handling the prisoners the "old-fashioned" way---with a billy club "upside the head". Naturally, O'Brien is in love with Bogart's sister, played by Ann Sheridan. IMO, this film is definitely "below par" in the Warner Bros. "gangster canon". To be fair, part of my distaste for this film is Pat O'Brien---I can't stand the guy. I've never thought he was a very good actor and I just don't care for him---especially in a lead role. Bogart turns in his usual "journeyman" performance as a hood and MacClane is good as the "old fashioned" prison guard. IMO, a so-so film.
 Bogart in the Big House August 19, 2009
Scott Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A disappointing 1937 prison drama that remains notable for Humphrey Bogart's sympathetic portrayal of a redemptive criminal. Otherwise, "San Quentin" is strictly routine. Pat O'Brien makes the most of his contrived role as the reform-minded captain romancing Bogart's sister (a miscast Ann Sheridan). The clichéd proceedings are briefly enlivened by a road-gang escape and ensuing chase. Unfortunately, the Hays Office really took the sting out of this Warner Bros. programmer.
Standard tough prison melodrama, competently done... January 13, 2007
Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In "San Quentin," Bogart returns quickly to a life of crime... Trying without success to add some depth and meaning to a role which offered little of either, Bogart is a convicted robber sent to San Quentin and assigned to a road gang as a rehabilitated step instituted by the prison yard captain, Pat O'Brien...
When Bogart is maliciously informed, through the efforts of the bad Barton MacLane, that O'Brien has less than honorable intentions toward his sister, Ann Sheridan, he breaks out and shoots O'Brien, though not seriously...
When he finds that he has made a mistake, he decides to give himself up, but...
"San Quentin," though far from one of Bogart's best roles, is almost always included in his film retrospectives as a favorite choice of his fans...
Cliched Prison Drama August 13, 2006
Douglas M
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"San Quentin", a 1937 Warner Brothers programmer, is a cliched story set in an around the prison of the same name. Pat O'Brien plays an army officer assigned to the prison to establish discipline and reform using army methods. Barton Maclane plays the guard he replaces who resents him, Humphrey Bogart plays the small time hoodlum who "only needs a break" to reform and Ann Sheridan plays his sister who O'Brien falls for. Joe Sawyer plays the hardened criminal. All of the actors are typecast although Bogart's role is more sympathetic than usual at this time and accordingly offers him a bit more range. The film is fast moving in typical Warner's fashion but the script and direction are not sharp enough to arise above the cliches. The film's scenes of prison life are cursory with no real sense of desperation or monotony, so well depicted in better films like "20,000 Years in Sing Sing". The melodramatics of the routine plot bog the film down. This probably was the first film which gave Ann Sheridan a leg up the ladder and she introduces a good song "How Could You" in a nightclub scene. She has a warm contralto and puts the song over with great charm and personality.
The quality of the film print is first rate and the DVD comes with many extras including a documentary about the advent of the prison fim, a worthwhile commentary about the film itself, not that it really warrants it, an excellent Porky Pig cartoon satirising the gangster and a Warner Brother's blooper reel from 1937. The blooper reels are always interesting if you know your Warner's films.
If the DVD is purchased as part of the Warner's Tough Guy Collection, it is good value but otherwise, there are better films in this genre available.
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