Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence and get back to his wife and family, and his desire to escape the confines of prison.A convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence and get back to his wife and family, and his desire to escape the confines of prison.A convict in a medium-security prison is torn between his need to finish his sentence and get back to his wife and family, and his desire to escape the confines of prison.
- Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 1 nomination au total
- Steve Davitt
- (as Elroy Hirsch)
- Parole Board
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Saxophone Player
- (uncredited)
- Police Captain
- (uncredited)
- Sally Haskins
- (uncredited)
- Sanders
- (uncredited)
- Mike Gladstone
- (uncredited)
- Mess hall instigator
- (uncredited)
- Jerry Hakara
- (uncredited)
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- AnecdotesThe song "Unchained Melody" popularized in the US by Al Hibbler and Roy Hamilton, and in Britain by Jimmy Young in 1955, the year of the film ,and later by Vito and The Salutations as well as The Righteous Brothers in the mid 1960s, first surfaced on the soundtrack of this movie as composed by Alex North.
- GaffesOpening narration said that this is the story was photographed at Chino prison as it happened, yet this film, which is just over an hour, takes place over several days.
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Narrator: [opening narration] This is Steve Davitt, convicted of a felony in the State of California. His destination: Chino, Pomona Valley. This is the largest honor prison in the world. Two thousand men live here. Murderers, armed robbers, forgers, safe-crackers, petty thieves. But there are no guns to hold them, no walls, no armed guards, just a man and an idea. A man named, Scudder; the idea: prisoners are people. This is their story. Photographed entirely at Chino, as it happened.
- Générique farfeluSuggested by the Life and Work of KENYON J. SCUDDER and by His Book "PRISONERS ARE PEOPLE"
- ConnexionsReferenced in You Bet Your Life: Episode #6.31 (1956)
Hy Zaret was/is Hy Zaret. Stirrat was an electrical engineer who became an impostor of HY Zaret. Stirrat filed a lot of copyright claims but didn't get around to filing one for "Unchained Melody" until 1982--27 years after the 1955 film "Unchained" and "Unchained Melody" hit the Billboard and Cashbox Charts and 26 years after "Unchained" had been nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song for "Unchained Melody"!
Stirrat talked to a reporter of a local newspaper who wrote a maudlin story about him and how he had written the lyrics to "Unchained Melody" back in 1936 when he was sixteen and smitten with a girl. (The absurdity that co-writer Alex North who would have been 26 then would have collaborated with a 16 year old high school student did not seem to occur to the reporter.) Apparently the reporter and newspaper did no checking of the claim but in 2003 just printed it as fact. "News Transcript" December 3, 2003. It was repeated again in Stirrat's obituary the following year and since then has been republished all over the internet (including IMDb's mini biography of Hy Zaret!) and is one of the most prevalent internet hoaxes.
This author attempted to submit a corrected biography to IMDb but it has gotten nowhere.
If anyone other than the real Zaret/North arguably deserve credit for contributing to this song it might be Phil Spector and Bobby Hatfield, producer and lead singer respectively of the 1965 Philles Righteous Brothers release.
- Thomas_J_McKeon
- 2 juin 2007
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- Durée1 heure 15 minutes
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