Convicted (1950)

Directed by

Henry Levin

Genre

drama film, film noir, prison film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After being convicted of manslaughter, a man is sent to prison. He must navigate the harsh realities of prison life and the corrupt authority of a brutal warden.

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What happens

Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford. It was the third Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the 1929 stage play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin, following Howard Hawks's The Criminal Code (1931) and John Brahm's Penitentiary (1938). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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