Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson
Directed by	Anatole Litvak
Produced by	Anatole Litvak Samuel Bischoff
Screenplay by	Seton I. Miller Brown Holmes Courtney Terrett
Based on	Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing by Lewis E. Lawes
Starring	John Garfield Ann Sheridan Pat O'Brien Burgess Meredith
Music by	Adolph Deutsch
Cinematography	Arthur Edeson
Edited by	Thomas Richards
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	February 17, 1940 (1940-02-17)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Castle on the Hudson (UK title: Years Without Days) is a 1940 American film noir drama directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. A thief is sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden. The film was based on the book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, written by Lewis E. Lawes, whom the warden was based upon.

Cast

• John Garfield as Tommy Gordon
• Ann Sheridan as Kay Manners, his girlfriend
• Pat O'Brien as Warden Walter Long
• Burgess Meredith as Steve Rockford
• Henry O'Neill as District Attorney
• Jerome Cowan as Ed Crowley
• Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Mike Cagle
• John Litel as Prison Chaplain
• Margot Stevenson as Ann Rockford
• Willard Robertson as Detective Ragan
• Edward Pawley as Black Jack
• Billy Wayne as Pete
• Nedda Harrigan as Mrs. Long
• Wade Boteler as Principal Keeper
• Barbara Pepper as Goldie
• Robert Strange as Joe Morris
• William Hopper as Reporter (uncredited)
• Grant Mitchell as Psychologist Dr. Ames (uncredited)
• Frank Puglia as Tony, prison on Death Row (uncredited)

See also

• List of American films of 1940
• 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, an earlier film also based on the Lawes book.

External links

• Castle on the Hudson at the TCM Movie Database
• Castle on the Hudson on IMDb
• Castle on the Hudson at AllMovie