An owl""s huge eyes frighten her.Flying bats scare her.Craggy trees seem to reach out and pull at her, snagging her clothes.She falls into a dark pit and a dark body of water, where the shapes of fallen logs change into alligators."]The adult bearded man from the oil rig miraculously reappeared on land and stole some clothes from the back of a car before running off.The sentimental love story, originally structured as a one-set play, was based on an unproduced play entitledEverybody Comes to Rick""sby Murray Burnett and Joan Alison - the film""s original title.The sound of the helicopter blades is brought back by thewhop-whop(orpuck-puck) sound of an overhead ceiling fan...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).