With talented British actors like Richard Greene and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the cast, it's a shame that this is about an hour of nothing much more than dialog that aides the audience into getting to know the various characters with no real story outside the backgrounds of the various prisoners on death row. It's as lifeless as the aftermath of a prison execution with just a hint of what could have been had there been a better script where the characters did nothing more than wait for the inevitable while they are being treated pretty inhumanly by the guards and getting a bit of compassion by Hardwicke who is the bearer of bad news by giving updates to when their executions will take place. Unfortunately, the Warner Brothers of "Little Caesar", "The Public Enemy" and "The Petrified Forest" isn't present across the pond at the British studio so it is rather unsatisfactory and sleep inducing, so the pain of electricity and gas is replaced by a lethal dose of ponderous tedium.
Review of Now Barabbas
