Film

The Whipping Boss

7.019241h

Director: J.P. McGowan
Year: 1924

Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.

Top cast

Wade Boteler

The Whipping Boys

Eddie Phillips

Jim

J.P. McGowan

Livingston

Lloyd Hughes

Dick Forrest

Barbara Bedford

Grace Woodward

William Elmer

Spike (as Billy Elmer)

Directed by

J.P. McGowan

Written by

P.j. Caldeway, Jack Boyle