The film was remade by First National Pictures as Castle on the Hudson in 1940, starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.

His associate Joe Finn promises to use his contacts and influence to free Connors, but his attempt to bribe the warden to provide special treatment is met with disdain and failure.

Connors makes trouble immediately, but the prolonged confinement in his cell begins to change his attitude.

As the warden had predicted, Connors is glad to contribute some honest work on the rockpile after his period of inactivity.

Bud Saunders, a highly educated fellow prisoner desperate to be with his pregnant wife, recruits Connors and another inmate for a complicated escape attempt.

Finn appears, expecting Fay to sign a statement exonerating him in exchange for $5,000 that he intended to give to Connors.

Connors is found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair despite Fay's testimony that it was she who killed Finn.

[6] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "In this rapidly paced film there are some extraordinarily interesting glimpses of prison routine, which were gleaned both from Mr. Lawer's [sic] story and from a study of life in Sing Sing.

For the purpose of setting forth a dramatic narrative the producers have seen fit to take certain liberties with the scheme of things and, unfortunately, there is the grim idea in the end of another man on the screen awaiting the electric chair.

... Spencer Tracy as the central character, Thomas Connors, gives a clever and convincing portrayal.