Numbered Men

It's a bunch of tough men in prison. That's why Raymond Hackett doesn't belong there. He's in for counterfeiting, but it was a frame-up. That's why girlfriend Bernice Claire has quit her stage career and gone to work on the farm where Blanche Friderici enjoys the company of the prisoners who are trusted to work on the road gang, where she feeds them on her home-made doughnuts. But Ralph Ince isn't just tough. He's mean. He's going to break out, ruin the welcome time outside for the trustees, and threaten Miss Claire.

It's derived from a stage play, and it's early enough days for sound that director Mervyn Leroy is hesitant about pacing the lines. Also, apparently there were some musical numbers for Miss Claire that were cut due to the collapse of musicals in 1929. Certainly the pacing of the movie suffers.