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Hanging judge Thomas Mitchell is tapped to be the warden of the state penitentiary. He takes along his soft-spoken daughter, Mary Anderson, and his rebellious son, Edward Ryan. He soon finds that even in a place with simple, brutal rules, life makes things complicated.

It's a B movie directed by Lucky Humberstone, and the shoot is carried with his usual professionalism, and that of the players, including Mark Stevens, the inimitable B. S. Pulley, and an unrecognizable Norman Lloyd -- I'm so used to seeing him as an old man with no hair - Unfortunately, elements of the script strain credibility past the breaking point for me, and credited DP Clyde De Vinna is well out of his comfort zone for creating striking images. It's hard to call a movie with Mitchell in it uninteresting, but he isn't on the screen enough to hold the viewer's attention.