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Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. A sympathetic prison head tries to help, but her efforts are subverted by cruel matron Evelyn Harper. Marie's harsh experiences turn her from doe-eyed innocent to hard-nosed con. Written by
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Will she come out a woman or a wildcat?
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Screen Director's Playhouse broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on August 2, 1951 with
Eleanor Parker reprising her film role.
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Goofs
When Marie Allen announces that her kitten has died, the cat opens its mouth.
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Emma Barber:
That trained seal can sure ask a lot of questions. Who is this Pearl Harbor anyway? What is she, an inmate?
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American Grindhouse (2010)
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For reasons I cannot fathom, this film sometimes ends up on lists of the worst movies of all time; this despite Oscar nominations for Eleanor Parker and Hope Emerson. It has some of the best acting performances around, runs the gamut on "stock" characters, but well done and great black & white filming and lighting. It's terrifically engaging and one quickly gets wrapped up with the characters, some of whom are morally ambiguous and some of whom are just evil, and how they choose to cope in unbearable circumstances. It's a great movie and deserving of a lot more credit than it's gotten in the past. 10/10.