---
title: '20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Michael Curtiz'
released: '1932-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 78
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/20000-years-in-sing-sing-1932'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023731/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

1932 · 78 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, starring Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the nonfiction book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Michael Curtiz](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-curtiz)
- **Screenplay:** [Wilson Mizner](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilson-mizner), [Robert Lord](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lord)
- **Producer:** [Robert Lord](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lord), [Darryl F. Zanuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/darryl-f-zanuck), [Raymond Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-griffith)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bernhard Kaun](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-kaun)
- **Director of Photography:** [Barney McGill](https://cinepixo.com/people/barney-mcgill)
- **Editor:** [George Amy](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-amy)

## Cast

- [Clarence Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-wilson)
- [Harry Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-wilson)
- [Spencer Tracy](https://cinepixo.com/people/spencer-tracy)
- [Warren Hymer](https://cinepixo.com/people/warren-hymer)
- [Bette Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/bette-davis)
- [Frank O'Connor](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-o-connor)
- [Nella Walker](https://cinepixo.com/people/nella-walker)
- [Lyle Talbot](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyle-talbot)
- [Hardie Albright](https://cinepixo.com/people/hardie-albright)
- [Lionel Atwill](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-atwill)
- [Spencer Charters](https://cinepixo.com/people/spencer-charters)
- [Arthur Hoyt](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hoyt)
- [Harry Tenbrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-tenbrook)
- [Arthur Byron](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-byron)
- [Louis Calhern](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-calhern)

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