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      Convicted

      Released Jul 22, 1950 1 hr. 31 min. Drama List
      Reviews 57% 50+ Ratings Audience Score During a barroom brawl, Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford) accidentally kills the son of a powerful, prominent man. The district attorney, George Knowland (Broderick Crawford), wins a manslaughter conviction, despite having doubts about the defendant's guilt. Joe is sent to prison, and George, who eventually becomes the warden there, hopes to get him released. But Joe gets so immersed in the culture and codes of the jailhouse that he finds it difficult to believe in his own innocence. Read More Read Less

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      Bill T A step up from the stiff "Convict's Code" movie from 1931 that this movie is remade from, Broderick Crawford fills Water Hustons shoes very nicely as the DA turned Prison Warden with a heart of golden. I was worried that he was going to be TOO soft, but Crawford knows when to be soft and when to lay down the law. Gleen Ford is pretty much Glenn Ford in anything he does. He's supposedly 27 here, but he could pass for 40 here. But he's Glenn Ford, so I guess that's ok lol Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/23/23 Full Review kevin w Stiff and formally presented account of a young man (Glenn Ford) imprisoned and disheartened by "the system" (represented by an overdone Broderick Crawford). Can he learn to trust again? Find love? Not exactly bad, even if it seems to admit that the system sometimes does makes mistakes and makes an under-the-table apology for it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Almost film noir, happy ending. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Glenn Ford is wrongfully arrested for the accidental death of a rich man's son (who was being a jerk at a dance hall for Ford's girl and Ford rightfully punched him, but he hit his head and later died of his head injury). Ford has a crumby lawyer and ends up with a long prison sentence. While in prison, Ford goes through the usual prinson film cliches when kindly new warden Broderick Crawford (who was the prosecuting attorney that send him to prison) comes to the big house, he tries to help Ford. Dorothy Malone plays Ford's girl and Millard Mitchell plays a tough con who Ford shares a cell with, along with Will Geer and Ed Begley. It's all pretty formal, but I've always liked Glenn Ford and it's a entertaining enough of production, even if it's nothing as original as "Brute Force" which came out just three years earlier. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member oh boy another prison drama Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Kind of a low-budget variation on The Big House or Brute Force, but a good one. Glenn Ford gets railroaded by a lousy lawyer into serving a dime for accidental manslaughter. The arresting police captain, (and ex-lawyer) Crawford eventually becomes his new warden and tough advocate to the wary and now embittered con. The ensuing drama is effectively gripping, due in large part to economical storytelling and a fine supporting cast of lifers. Crawford gets into full barking outrage at key moments, and the scenes of the prisoners "yammering" in protest are well done. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Despite being over-plotted and contrived, it ably gets across its point that prison life is hardly human. Rated: B Oct 13, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis During a barroom brawl, Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford) accidentally kills the son of a powerful, prominent man. The district attorney, George Knowland (Broderick Crawford), wins a manslaughter conviction, despite having doubts about the defendant's guilt. Joe is sent to prison, and George, who eventually becomes the warden there, hopes to get him released. But Joe gets so immersed in the culture and codes of the jailhouse that he finds it difficult to believe in his own innocence.
      Director
      Henry Levin
      Screenwriter
      William Bowers, Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller
      Production Co
      Columbia Pictures Corporation
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 22, 1950, Limited
      Release Date (DVD)
      Mar 15, 2016
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