Meeker kidnaps a kid, but kid dies in an accident so Meeker tosses him into a 1,000 foot deep rugged Gorge but manages to get $200k ransom which he stashes. He gets caught and sent to a BIG HOUSE on a fakey looking island in the USA. His cell-mates are: Broderick Crawford, chess playing chief mastermind, Lon Chaney Jr., lovable loony who reads romance magazines, Charles Bronson, ever shirtless and bulging with greased up muscles(reading muscle magazines) and William Talman (Perry Masons own D.A., Hamilton Burger) They are about to escape. They kidnap the kidnapper to make him take them to the ransom money. After the escape Crawford makes Talman bash Bronson's brains in and blow torch his body. Then Crawford shoots Chaney Jr. This leaves Meeker to lead Crawford & Talman to the ransom loot. When they get to the stash, they conk Meeker on the noggin but now the Park Rangers and F.B.I. ambush them. Talman get shot about twenty seven times by the F.B.I guy and Crawford gives himself up, sniveling like a baby. The coward. Voice-over says Crawford & Meeker get nuked in the BIG HOUSE. This is a kidnap story but I guess BIG HOUSE, USA sounds more fun than KIDNAP, USA. The flick is fun. You won't hate it, nor will you insist on getting back the time you spent watching it.
Review of Big House, U.S.A.
