Convicted

1950
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1h 31m

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Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford in Convicted (1950)

A D.A. becomes the prison warden to try to help an inmate he prosecuted, because he now believes his sentence is excessive.A D.A. becomes the prison warden to try to help an inmate he prosecuted, because he now believes his sentence is excessive.A D.A. becomes the prison warden to try to help an inmate he prosecuted, because he now believes his sentence is excessive.

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6.8/10

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Trivia
John Ireland was suspended by Columbia for refusing to work on "Convicted". He subsequently went to court and won his case, which resulted in his being allowed to buy himself out of his Columbia contract.

Goofs
After Kay boards the train and it starts to move, a shadow of the boom microphone is visible on the porter's jacket and the side of the train car.

Quotes
George Knowland: There goes a first-class, double-breasted, overstuffed idiot.

Connections
Referenced in Remington Steele: Steele Alive and Kicking (1986)

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6/10

Glenn Ford in better than average prison drama...

The more I see of GLENN FORD, the more I appreciate the range of his underrated talent. CONVICTED is a low-budget crime melodrama from Columbia that co-stars BRODERICK CRAWFORD with DOROTHY MALONE and ED BEGLEY in supporting roles.

Ford is a victim of circumstance, landing in prison after slugging a man at a nightclub who insults the woman he's dancing with. The man dies and Ford is sent to prison for five years.

Crawford becomes the prison's new warden and soon discovers that things aren't being run the way he approves of. It's nice to see Crawford in a sympathetic role as the warden who takes an interest in Ford's prison record and attempts to help him. He asks daughter Dorothy Malone to treat him respectfully when he assigns him to be her chauffeur.

The dialog is terse and full of wisecracks and Henry Levin's direction is taut with suspense. There's the usual prison breaks, the prison snitch (FRANK FAYLEN), and suspense building with the usual twists and turns as a prison break is imminent and the snitch is about to get his comeuppance.

Summing up: Good dialog and tense situations make this a better than average prison drama. Broderick Crawford is especially strong as the good-hearted warden and Ford is more than competent as the wrongly accused inmate.