Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA crooked deputy warden at San Quentin Penitentiary tries to frame a sergeant of the guards, Jack Holden, for the killing of a guard and a prisoner during a jailbreak.A crooked deputy warden at San Quentin Penitentiary tries to frame a sergeant of the guards, Jack Holden, for the killing of a guard and a prisoner during a jailbreak.A crooked deputy warden at San Quentin Penitentiary tries to frame a sergeant of the guards, Jack Holden, for the killing of a guard and a prisoner during a jailbreak.
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- Louie Howard
- (as George Breakston)
- Guard Gaines
- (as Drew Demarest)
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- AnecdotesThe earliest documented telecast of this film in New York City occurred Saturday 26 January 1946 on pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). In Washington DC it first aired Sunday 28 March 1948 on WMAL (Channel 7), in Dayton Tuesday 15 March 1949 on WHIO (Channel 13), in Detroit Tuesday 12 April 1949 on WJBK (Channel 2), in Baltimore Tuesday 8 June 1949 on WAAM (Channel 13), in Albuquerque Saturday 18 June 1949 on KOB (Channel 4), in Atlanta Friday 25 November 1949 on WAGA (Channel 5), and in Los Angeles Thursday 2 March 1950 on KTLA (Channel 5).
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Saunderson: What are you doing?
Convict Skins Miller: Just keeping my hand in, I mean my feet in. I used to be an actor, Deputy.
Saunderson: An actor? You're friend's been a pickpocket all of his life.
Convict Skins Miller: Can't a guy have a hobby?
Saunderson: And he was no good as a dip either. Why, you couldn't stick your hand in the bay without knocking over the 'Frisco bridge.
The film is set at California's infamous San Quentin prison. How truthful the portrayal the prison is at the film's beginning I am uncertain--though I found at least some of it pretty believable. The Warden is a spineless cypher who pretty much lets the guards run the place. The guards are, for the most part, as bad as the prisoners--and routinely beat and mistreat the prisoners. However, after some very well-publicized incidents, the Warden is forced out and on of the guards, a very decent man, is made the new leader of the prison--and allows him to make whatever reforms he wants. The place is very, very different after he takes over--with the men being treated like men and rehabilitation being the theme. Some of the reforms made a lot of sense--some seemed ridiculously idealistic.
What bothered me was not the extreme idealism. It had a point to make and went way overboard to make it (especially the radio talent show)--but you expect that in a reform-oriented film. No, what bothered me was some of the dialog and one of the characters. As for the dialog, it was from the 'aw, shucks' school of acting--and the prisoners, for the most part, were about as scary as munchkins. And, as for the character, the new Warden's wife was just silly--as she seemed to have ESP. She would meet a prisoner and 'just know' that he was good and would make INSANE gestures to help them. To me, she came off as a flake...or a bit of a nut. It's too bad, as if the film had just been written and acted a good bit better, it would have been able to make its point much, much better. Worth a look but very flawed.
- planktonrules
- 12 juil. 2011
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