After Marion serves a dessert of ample slices of apple pie, Joe comments on the fanciness of supper: "Say, we""re kinda fancy, aren""t we?.The First Mate is chauvinistic, but apologetic: "You""re all right, but, but, but women, women just can""t help being a bother.Shortly after, at a local gunshop, Loomis bought a.357 Magnum, when it was recommended by the storekeeper Derek Allen (Micky Dolenz, one of the original Monkees) ("If you want to blow its f--kin"" head off, this is what you want...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).