अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंJobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent on... सभी पढ़ेंJobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent on her behalf, is sentenced to a year in the Curtiss House of Correction. Chief Matron Brack... सभी पढ़ेंJobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent on her behalf, is sentenced to a year in the Curtiss House of Correction. Chief Matron Brackett rules with an iron hand with the aid of inmates Frankie Mason, "The Duchess" and Nita ... सभी पढ़ें
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- Prosecutor
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- Court Clerk
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- Hank, a Reporter
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- Reporter
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When the story begins, Betty (Rochelle Hudson) is going on a job interview and ends up being arrested for theft! While the evidence against her isn't clear and she has no record, the judge sentences her to a year in a women's prison. Once there, Betty ends up seeing just how cruel and awful the place can be...and she wants out...even if it means trying to escape. However, when a new warden is brought in, things improve...except for Betty's attitude...at least initially. By now, she's hardened, cynical and full of hate....thanks to the prison and its evil matron.
While this prison looks like paradise compared to men's prisons in movies, the movie did a good job of making you care about the women AND sympathize with them. Additionally, it's pretty well made for a B. I'd rate it hgher except for one minor problem...I've seen quite a few similar films...too many to list them all above. Still, it's better than just a time-passer....and it's a chance to see young Glenn Ford in one of his earliest roles.
Ford is billed all the way down in the cast at 5. He plays a newspaper reporter who along with attorney Frieda Inescourt befriends Hudson who gets herself railroaded into a shoplifting rap and sent off to women's prison.
It's a pretty rotten place run by chief matron Esther Dale and June Lang who is the queenpin among the prisoners and has her own gang. The usual cliches concerning prison pictures especially those for women are found here.
Some of the others in this distaff prison population are are Lola Lane, the tragic Mary Field whose death sparks an investigation and in a small role Donna Reed.
The script has a lot of holes in it, but this was a B picture and I'm sure it wasn't on Harry Cohn's priority list. It's passably entertaining.
Now, I'm on Ellis's side. Prisons should be as humane as possible, not only for the good of the inmates, but for society as well. But this is Hollywood at its phoniest, where every pitfall is overcome by a near miraculous turn of the script. Look at how easily Brent (Ford) is able to locate the overdue Betty or how compliant the commissioner is or how quickly even Duchess turns around. The message here is a laudable one, namely, that kindness works. However, it's spread on in such simple-minded fashion that it becomes little more than propaganda for a good cause. Perhaps the screenplay reflects New Deal optimism of the time, and worked for those reform-minded audiences. Now, however, the movie's main interest is to fans of a lively young Glenn Ford before he learned the power of low-key.
Mr. Kline never won an award, but he always did a good job, whether shooting a Tom Mix western (take a look at the surviving prints of SKY HIGH and marvel at how well they have aged) or Moe poking Curly in the eye -- comedy calls for bright flat lighting. He worked for more than fifty years and ended his career behind the camera of some TV movies: westerns, of course.
The story is pretty much of a retread of those crusading reform-the-prisons movies, like 20,000 YEARS AT SING-SING and CASTLE ON THE HUDSON. It hews strictly to the Production Code and it would be another decade and a half before lesbianism began to creep into this sort of movie. Rochelle Hudson, a good actress who never got beyond the Bs does a fine job,. Yet while her performance is spot on, she always looks ready to slip out of that prison uniform she's been wearing all day working in the prison laundry and into an evening gown for a night on the town. Few of the other actors, including a very young Glenn Ford are particularly good, which I blame Nick Grinde for.
This was quite obviously intended as a major production for Columbia. There are no major actors, but a lot of them for the crowd scenes. Although the reworked plot and mediocre acting by the majority of the cast don't do a thing for this, the solid performance by Miss Hudson and brilliant camera-work by Mr. Kline make this a superior movie.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाAmong other objections to dialogue, the Production Code Adminstrators file contains regional censorship reports, which indicate that the shot of a girl's hanging body early in the film was deleted from prints in various countries and territories. Australian censors eliminated from the film the line: "I want two [men]. I'm double jointed."
- गूफ़When the first inmate is measured and weighed, the matron cites her height as 5' 2". However, when the next inmate is measured, the matron has to lower the device to touch her head before announcing that she is 5' 3". However, the bar had to be raised for the woman to be able to exit, so naturally, the bar needs to be lowered again down to the new woman's head.
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