"1917 MONTEREYJust outside the city limits[Note: Although the film""s setting was early 20th century Monterey, California, most of the film was shot on location in the coastal town of Mendocino, California, although some scenes were filmed in the fertile Salinas Valley.The gang continues to cause havoc by dragging on the main street for beers.One of the gang members tells everyone to race for Bleeker""s: "Last guy to the door of that joint buys beers.Picard reached the dying Kirk; and assured him that they had "made a difference"; Kirk""s final words were: "(The) least I could do...and awoke America""s conscience!"A few other prison films had already been released before this short, 90 minute film: the classicThe Big House (1930)about brutish prison conditions, Howard Hawks""Criminal Code (1931),Ladies of the Big House (1931), and director Rowland Brown""sHell""s Highway (1932)(the first of the hard-hitting chain-gang films - deliberately released by RKO""s producer David Selznick a few months earlier)." After the children have been put to bed, Laura discusses with her husband in the downstairs study the next day""s plans with the children.