The Whipping Boss

The Whipping Boss

60 mins | Feb. 9, 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.

The Whipping Boss

60 mins | Feb. 9, 1924

The Whipping Boss
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.
Producers
Original title The Whipping Boss
Directors J.P. McGowan
Writers P.j. Caldeway, Jack Boyle

Cast

Wade Boteler

as The Whipping Boys

J.P. McGowan

as Livingston

Lloyd Hughes

as Dick Forrest

Barbara Bedford

as Grace Woodward

William Elmer

as Spike (as Billy Elmer)