Now Barabbas

NOW BARABBAS WAS A ROBBER is a strange little prison drama from 1949, best watched thanks to its cast of future greats including Richard Burton and Kenneth More. The film features Sir Cedric Hardwicke playing a prison governer intervening in the lives of various cons; there's an anthology feel to some of the scenes which show how each character ended up in prison in the first place. Much of the film's dour and melodramatic tone comes from the major plot of nice-guy Richard Greene, who's the only prisoner actually on Death Row. Other familiar faces include William Hartnell and Harry Fowler. An interesting rather than engrossing film.