Convicted (1950)

A prison warden comes to believe that an inmate in his facility has been wrongly convicted, and sets out to help prove his innocence.

Director:

Henry Levin

Writers:

Martin Flavin (play), William Bowers (screenplay),

Stars:

Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell

Cast

Credited cast:
Glenn Ford	...	Joe Hufford
Broderick Crawford	...	George Knowland
Millard Mitchell	...	Malloby
Dorothy Malone	...	Kay Knowland
Carl Benton Reid	...	Captain Douglas
Frank Faylen	...	Convict Ponti
Will Geer	...	Convict Mapes
Martha Stewart	...	Bertie Williams
Henry O'Neill	...	Detective Dorn
Douglas Kennedy	...	Det. Bailey
Roland Winters	...	Vernon Bradley, Attorney
Ed Begley	...	Mackay, Head of Parole Board
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wilton Graff	...	Dr. Agar (scenes deleted)

Storyline

Joe Hufford gets involved in a nightclub brawl, kills a man in self defense, and is sent to prison for manslaughter, to the dismay of district attorney George Knowland who realizes Joe had an incompetent lawyer who should have gotten him off by proving self-defense. Later, Knowland becomes warden of the prison Joe is in, and makes him a Trusty and his chauffeur. Joe and the warden's daughter, Kay, fall in love but Joe gets involved in a prison escape.

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Plot Keywords:

prison | self defense | brawl | attorney | chauffeur | 

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Taglines:

Two powerful stars in a drama of a convict's love for a warden's daughter!

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Film-Noir

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

August 1950 (USA)

Also Known As:

One Way Out

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

George Knowland: That was a double breasted, overstuffed idiot.

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Connections

Remake of Penitentiary (1938)

User Reviews

Convicted (1950)

The trials and tribulations of a man sentenced to five years for an accidental murder from a mild fist fight. Very middle-of-the-road, routine prison drama, watchable but brings nothing new or exciting to the table. Despite having Burnett Guffey behind the camera, the photography is nothing special at all. However, it does feature an array of good performances. Glenn Ford is sort of dull (as usual) and once again Dorothy Malone is underutilized. But Broderick Crawford is almost always a blast to watch, even when playing an absurdly liberal warden (I know prisons sometimes have trustees, but allowing one to freely drive your daughter around the city, completely unsupervised?). And a lot of the great character actors show up, many of them classic noir faces: Whit Bissell, Ed Begley, Frank Faylen and especially Millard Mitchell.