Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Prison Break (1938) and Constance Moore

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Red Kincaid (Ward Bond) and Joaquin Shannon (Barton MacLane) squaring off to fight in prison while prisoners watch and guards hold them back.
Edmund MacDonald as Chris and Constance Moore as Maria in Prison Break

This movie was a curse.

I looked this up on Letterboxd, saw that it had a 3.7 rating out of five, and decided it was worth watching. About halfway in I was so bored that I looked it up again, and learned that its number are probably artificially inflated by sharing the name of a popular TV series. I WUZ HOODWINKED, I TELL YA!

Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Constance Moore's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Constance Moore.

I chose this movie because I was looking for something with Constance Moore I could watch for free. She had pretty high billing, but she only has a couple of scenes at the beginning of the movie, and in the middle we find out that she was killed off-screen. I almost expected a scribbled card reading “POOCHIE DIED ON HIS WAY HOME” to pop up.

…and to finish off this turd fest: I couldn’t figure out a decent parody poster, and there were pretty much no decent pictures from the movie. And that’s why today’s poster is a halfass reference to the poster for “Ernest Goes to Jail.” The only thing that’s close to the original poster is the lettering.

A fake poster for Prison Break that just barely references the poster for Ernest Goes to Jail.

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