Castle on the Hudson (UK title: Years Without Days) is a 1940 American prison film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.

[2][3] Tommy Gordon (John Garfield), a cocky, arrogant career thief, is finally nailed by New York City authorities after pulling a big heist.

Unlike many of his death-row companions who panic and break down as their appointment with fate approaches, Tommy stolidly faces the consequences of his noble decision.

One year earlier, John Garfield had refused to play a role in Invisible Stripes (1939) as George Raft's younger brother, and this had forced Warner Bros. to place him on the first of his 11 total suspensions while at the studio.

[5] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic B. R. Crisler wrote: "This is merely a routine notice that Mr. John Garfield, formerly of the Group Theatre, who was recently sentenced to a term in Warner Brothers pictures, is still in prison.

... Mr. Garfield, who seems to be wearing a little thin, for some reason—can it be possible that he has been a trifle overbuilt as a screen personality?—is the tough but golden-hearted prisoner who goes to the death-house trailing wisecracks like cigarette ashes.

[8] Pat O'Brien took legal action against the Globe Theatre in New York during its run of Castle on the Hudson because his name was billed below that of Garfield on the theater's marquee.