Convicted (1950 film)
Convicted is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Henry Levin and starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford.[1] It was the third Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the 1929 stage play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin, following Howard Hawk's The Criminal Code (1931) and John Brahm's Penitentiary (1938).[2]
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| Directed by | Henry Levin |
| Produced by | Jerry Bresler |
| Screenplay by | William Bowers Fred Niblo, Jr. Seton I. Miller |
| Based on | The Criminal Code 1929 play by Martin Flavin |
| Starring | Glenn Ford Broderick Crawford |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
The prison drama tells of Joe Hufford (Glenn Ford), a man convicted of manslaughter. George Knowland (Broderick Crawford) is the warden who understands Hufford and tries to help him adjust to prison life. Hufford witnesses the murder of an informer by another convict Malloby (Millard Mitchell), but he sticks to the prison's "silent code" and refuses to talk, even though it means he will be accused of the killing. He is locked in solitary confinement. In the end, the real murderer confesses and Hufford escapes the electric chair and into the arms of the warden's daughter (Dorothy Malone), with whom he has fallen in love.
Cast
- Glenn Ford as Joe Hufford
- Broderick Crawford as George Knowland
- Millard Mitchell as Malloby
- Dorothy Malone as Kay Knowland
- Carl Benton Reid as Captain Douglas
- Frank Faylen as Convict Ponti
- Will Geer as Convict Mapes
- Martha Stewart as Bertie Williams
- Henry O'Neill as Detective Dorn
- Douglas Kennedy as Det. Bailey
- Roland Winters as Vernon Bradley, Attorney
- Ed Begley as Mackay – Head of Parole Board
- Ray Teal as Cell Block / Yard Guard (uncredited)
Reception
The staff at Variety magazine wrote, Convicted isn't quite as grim a prison film as the title would indicate. It has several off-beat twists to its development, keeping it from being routine. While plotting is essentially a masculine soap opera, scripting [from a play by Martin Flavin] supplies plenty of polish and good dialog to see it through."[3]
References
External links
- Convicted on IMDb
- Convicted at AllMovie
- Convicted at the TCM Movie Database
- Convicted at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Convicted informational essay at Turner Classic Movies by Nathaniel Thompson