They All Come Out

1939
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1h 10m

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A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.

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6.0/10

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The original trailer for They All Come Out (1939) claimed that it was the first to show the real truth about Alcatraz and other federal prisons. In fact, this started out as a four-reel documentary short on federal prisons. Louis B. Mayer asked shorts director Jacques Tourneur to expand the documentary. Mayer liked what he saw and ordered Tourneur to use the footage to create a feature film of fiction. This became Tourneur's first American feature film.

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[first lines]
Self - Former Attorney-General: You know, Jim, I've been thinking. You have one of the most interesting jobs in the whole Department of Justice. Here you are, in charge of twenty-eight federal prisons, and eighteen thousand prisoners. The people apparently have very little realization of that phase of our work. They don't seem to realize that every time a prison door opens, and a man goes in, another man comes out. That in a way is a challenge of the federal prison system. Some day, some how, all these prisoners come out, come back to live among us. Now, we've done a very great deal for these men, and it seems to me that the public ought to be told about it.
Self - Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: They should be told, but it's a big story, and it's a hard story to tell because every single case is different. Let's take a look at a typical case of interstate bandits...
[switches to the story of Reno Madigan's gang]

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6/10

odd piece discusses rehabbing prisoners

Short film made into a full length feature. It highlights how the prisons attempt to rehabilitate people, since most of them will be rejoining society when their sentence is complete. Stars rita johnson as kitty carson (can't help but think of kit carson, famous american outdoorsman, fighting man.) she's the moll for the madigan gang, which is sent up after pulling a bank job. They try to rehab joe (tom neal) and kitty. Reno the boss was sent to alcatraz. And it looks like actual footage from alcatraz and chillicothe prisons. The prison psychiatrist was charles lane; for a time, he held the record for playing the most bit parts in films. Not sure if that's still true. They sure weren't very delicate about the phsych prison...they show us the sign that says "U. S. hospital for defective delinquents." real nice. The film is okay... seems to be a propaganda piece instructing crooks on what to expect when the enter prison. Probably would have been more enjoyable if they dropped the extra boring intro and epilogue at the beginning and end. Directed by jacques tourneur, who had been doing mostly shorts prior to this. Actress rita johnson died at 52 from trauma caused by a hair dryer falling on her head. Bizarre. Tom neal died at 58.