The Big Guy

Dec 22, 1939

1h 18m

★ 0.0

BIG...With a FIST! BIG... With a GUN! BIG..With a GAL!

Overview

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Warden Bill Whitlock

Victor McLaglen

Jimmy Hutchins

Jackie Cooper

Mary Whitlock

Ona Munson

Joan Lawson

Peggy Moran

Dippy

Edward Brophy

Jack Lane

Jonathan Hale

Lawson

Russell Hicks

District Attorney

Wallis Clark

Joe

Alan Davis

Williams

Murray Alper

Buckhart

Edward Pawley

Buzz Miller

George McKay

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.

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